Note 86 — SINDBAD THE SEAMAN[1] AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN. (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The fable is from Al-Kazwini and Ibn Al-Wardi who place the serpent (an animal sacred to Æsculapius, Pliny, xxix. 4) “in the sea of Zanj” (i.e. Zanzibar). In the “garrow hills” of N. Eastern Bengal the skin of the snake Burrawar(?) is held to cure pain (Asiat. Res. vol. iii.).