The Classical Accounts of India c13.78

c13.78

56. The ships which frequent these ports are of a large size, on account of the great amount and bulkiness of the pepper and betel⁵¹ of which their lading consists. The imports here are principally great quantities of specie; (topaz?), gold stone,⁵² chrysolite;⁵³ a small assortment of plain cloth, flowered robes; Stibium,⁵⁴ a pigment for the eyes; coral, white glass, copper or brass, tin, lead; wine, but not much, but about as much as at Barygaza; sandarach,⁵⁵ arsenic (orpiment), yellow sulphuret of arsenic; and corn, only for the use of the ship company, as the merchants do not sell it