[532] See also Sprenger, Die alte Geographie Arabiens. Bern, 1875. 296, 302, also 244.
[533] “Thus transfretanum,” Sprenger, 299.
[534] Rawlinson’s Herodotus, ii. (1858) 488.—Sprenger, l. c. 300, alludes to olibanum being exported to Babylonia and Persia.
[535] Chishull, Antiquitates Asiaticæ, Lond. 1758. 65-72.
[536] These remarkable gifts are enumerated by Vignoli in his Liber Pontificalis, Rome, 1724-55, and include beside Olibanum, Oleum nardinum, Oleum Cyprium, Balsam, Storax Isaurica, Stacte, Aromata cassiæ, Saffron and Pepper.
[537] The ancient name of Cape Gardafui was Promontorium Aromatum.
[538] Bretschneider, Ancient Chinese, &c. Lond. 1871. 19.
[539] Returns of Trade at the Treaty Ports in China for 1872, p. 4.
[540] Trans. Bombay Geograph. Soc. vii. (1846) 121.
[541] See sketch of the Somali coast. Pharm. Journ. viii. (13 Apr. 1878) 806.