The Classical Accounts of India c13.44

c13.44

²⁷ To Eudaemon Arabia at once succeeds a great length of coast and a bay extending 2,000 stadia or more, inhabited by nomadic tribes and Ikhthyophagoi settled in villages. On doubling a cape which projects from it you come to another trading seaport, Cana, which is subject to Eleazus, king of the incense country. Two barren islands lie opposite to it, 120 stadia off—one called Orneon, and the other Troullas. At some distance inland from Cana is Sabbatha the principal city of the district, where the king resides. At Cana is collected all the incense that is produced in the country, this being conveyed to it partly on camels, and partly by sea on floats supported on inflated skins, a local invention, and also in boats. Cana carries on