Note 1 — Chapter I
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: [Greek: "tôn endoterôn,"] the countries inside (that is to the east) of Cape Comorin, as distinguished from the outer ports ([Greek: ta exôtera]) mentioned below, which lie west of it.
2: [Greek: "metaxin."] Of this foreign word, applied by the mediæval Greeks to silk in general, as well as to raw silk, PROCOPIUS says:—[Greek: "Ahutê de estin hê metaxa, ex hês eiothasi tên esthêta ergazesthai, hên palai men Hellênes mêdikên, tanun de sêrikên onomazousi."]—PROCOP. Persic. I. Metaxa, or anciently mataxa, "thread," "yarn," seems to be Latine rather than Greek. The metaxarius was a "yarn-broker;" and the word having got possession of the market, was extended to the woven stuff. The modern Greeks call silk [Greek: metaxa.]
3: [Greek: "tzandana,"] probably "sandalwood;" sometimes called agallochum.
4: [Greek: "ta exôtera,"] those lying west of Cape Comorin.
5: Malabar.
6: Bombay.
7: Scinde.
8: [Greek: "androsthachon."]
9: Southern Arabia, chiefly Hadramaut.