Note 70 — SINDBAD THE SEAMAN[1] AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN. (continued 2)

Insula, pro peninsula. “Comorin” is a corrupt. of “Kanyá” (= Virgo, the goddess Durgá) and “Kumári” (a maid, a princess); from a temple of Shiva’s wife: hence Ptolemy’s Κῶρυ ἄκρον and near it to the N. East Κομαρία ἄκρον καὶ πολις, “Promontorium Cori quod Comorini caput insulæ vocant,” says Maffæus (Hist. Indic. i. p. 16). In the text “Al’úd” refers to the eagle-wood (Aloekylon Agallochum) so called because spotted like the bird’s plume. That of Champa (Cochin-China, mentioned by Camoens, The Lus. x. 129) is still famous.