The Classical Accounts of India c13.41

c13.41

The country produces a little wheat and a great abundance of wine. Both the king and the despot above mentioned receive presents consisting of horses, pack saddle mules, gold plate, silver plate embossed, robes of great value, and utensils of brass. Muza exports its own local products: myrrh of the finest quality that has oozed in drops from the trees, both the Gabiraean and Minoean kinds; white marble (or alabaster), in addition to commodities brought from the other side of the Gulf, all such as were enumerated at Aduli. The most favourable season for making a voyage to Muza is the month of September, that is Thoth, but there is nothing to prevent it being made earlier.