Σῖτος ὅσος ἀρκέ σει τοῖς περὶ το ναυκλήριον, διὰ τὸ μὴ τοὺς ἐμπόρους αὐτῷ χρῆσθαι—Corn, only for the use of the ship’s company, as the merchants do not sell it. The following commodities are brought to it for export:— Πέπερι μονογενῶς ἐν ἐνὶ τόπω τούτων τῶν ἐμπορίων γεννώμενον πολύ τῇ λεγομενῇ Κοττοναρικη—Pepper in great quantity, produced in only one of these marts, and called the pepper of Kottonara. Μαργαρίτης ίκανὸς καὶ διάφορος—Pearls in great quantity and of superior quality. Ἐλέφας—Ivory. Ὀθόνια Σηρικὰ—Fine silks. Νάρδος ἡ Γαγγητικὴ—Spikenard from the Ganges. Μαλάβαθρον—Betel—all brought from countries further east. Λιθία διαφανὴς παντοία—Transparent or precious stones of all sorts. Αδάμας—Diamonds. Ὑάκινθος—Jacinths. Χελώνη ἥτε Χρυσονησιωτικὴ καὶ ἡ περὶ τὰς νήσους θηρευομένη τὰς προκειμένας αὐτῆς τῆς Λιμυρικῆς—Tortoise-shell from the Golden Island, and another sort which is taken in the islands which lie off the coast of Limurikê. The proper season to set sail from Egypt for this part of India is about the month of July—that is, Epiphi. 57. The whole round of the voyage from +Kanê+ and +Eudaimôn Arabia+, which we have just described, used to be performed in small vessels which kept close to shore and followed its windings, but +Hippalos+ was the pilot who first, by observing the bearings of the ports and the configuration of the sea, discovered the direct course across the ocean; whence as, at the season when our own Etesians are blowing, a periodical wind from the ocean likewise blows in the Indian Sea, this wind, which is the south-west, is, it seems, called in these seas Hippalos [after the name of the pilot who first discovered the _passage by means of it_]. From the time of this discovery to the present day, merchants who sail for India either from +Kanê+, or, as others do, from +Arômata+, if Limurikê be their destination, must often change their tack, but if they are bound for +Barugaza+ and +Skythia+, they are not retarded for more than three days, after which, committing themselves to the monsoon which blows right in the direction of their course, they stand far out to sea, leaving all the gulfs we have mentioned in the distance.