Note {2} — Chapter XXIV

Note 2.—This is from Pauthier’s text, and the map with ch. xxi. illustrates the fact of the many wide rivers. The G. T. has “a good river with a very good estuary” or mouth. The latter word is in the G. T. faces, afterwards more correctly foces, equivalent to fauces. We have seen that Ibn Batuta also speaks of the estuary or inlet at Hili. It may have been either that immediately east of Mount d’Ely, communicating with Kavváyi and the Nileshwaram River, or the Madai River. Neither could be entered by vessels now, but there have been great littoral changes. The land joining Mt. d’Ely to the main is mere alluvium.