Note 407 — KING MOHAMMED BIN SABAIK AND THE MERCHANT HASAN.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. Timsah from Coptic (Old Egypt) Emsuh or Msuh. The animal cannot live in salt-water, a fact which proves that the Crocodile Lakes on the Suez Canal were in old days fed by Nile-water; and this was necessarily a Canal.