The Classical Accounts of India c13.32
The Classical Accounts of India c13.32
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c13.32
17. The articles imported into these marts are principally javelins manufactured at Muza, hatchets, knives, awls, and glass of various sorts, to which must be added corn and wine in no small quantity landed at particular ports, not for sale, but to entertain and thereby conciliate the barbarians. The articles which these places export are ivory, in great abundance but of inferior quality to that obtained at Aduli, rhinoceros, and tortoise shell of fine quality, second only to the Indian, and little nauplius.¹⁶