[157] From תוזרפ perazoth, dwellers in unwalled villages.
[158] Our best vessels are on the lines of the old French, which in the time of Louis XIV. were copied from the Turks, who had them from the Byzantine Greeks, who originally derived them from the Phœnicians.
[159] Herodotus, l. ii. c. 44. President Goguet, Origines des Lois, vol. ii. p. 114. Drummond’s Origines, vol. iii. p. 94.
[160] The word P’hen occurs, though I believe only once, in our Egyptian monuments as the name of a people: who the people were is uncertain.
[161] These statements rest on the authority of Sir Alexander Johnson.
An account of these people is given in Pridhane’s Ceylon, p. 470-480. The Cingalese call them Marakkalaya, which means boatmen; they are Sheas, while the Mussulmans of the continent are Souni.
[162] Towards the end of his reign an insurrection took place, of which the field lay principally at Bussorah; but in this case we know that the defeated insurgents retreated northward to seek the protection of the Turks.—See Ockley, vol. ii. p. 372.
[163] At the beginning of the eleventh century the western Arabs were not in possession of the compass, for the astronomer Ebu Youni constructed a table by which to find the Kibleh.
[164] Columbus, on reaching dry land westward, wrote, “The world is not so large as is supposed.”
[165] Glass, for instance, not as a native product, but as an exotic.