A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Note 212 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 3)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

Buxen, not in the dictionaries: buxeta, a small casket for perfumes to put in the pocket, so called because made of bux or box; Anglicè, box.