Chapter XXI
Ellen E. (Ellen Elizabeth) Frewer translation
Sheba. Ophir.—The identity of this locality with the southern coast of Arabia is beyond a doubt.—Page 309.
"Fairer, etc."—These verses are translated from some later Arabian poetry. Oriental taste has altered so little, that I may claim to be pardoned for putting into the mouth of a Phœnician, a thousand years before the Christian era, some poetry belonging to a period a thousand years after.—Page 310.