Note 44 — SINDBAD THE SEAMAN[1] AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Black pepper is produced in the Goanese but we must go south to find the “Bilád al-Filfil” (home of pepper) i.e. Malabar. The exorbitant prices demanded by Venice for this spice led directly to the discovery of The Cape route by the Portuguese; as the “Grains of Paradise” (Amomum Granum Paradisi) induced the English to explore the West African Coast.