Note {1} — Chapter XXXV
Henry Yule translation
Note 1.—Abash (Abasce) is a close enough representation of the Arabic Ḥabsh or Ḥabash, i.e. Abyssinia. He gives as an alternative title Middle India. I am not aware that the term India is applied to Abyssinia by any Oriental (Arabic or Persian) writer, and one feels curious to know where our Traveller got the appellation. We find nearly the same application of the term in Benjamin of Tudela: