c. 940.—"... The teak-tree (sāj). This tree, which is taller than the date-palm, and more bulky than the walnut, can shelter under its branches a great number of men and cattle, and you may judge of its dimensions by the logs that arrive, of their natural length, at the depôts of Basra, of 'Irāk, and of Egypt...."—Māṣ'ūdī, iii. 12.
Before 1200.—Abu'l-ḍhali' the Sindian, describing the regions of Hind, has these verses:
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"By my life! it is a land where, when the rain falls,
Jacinths and pearls spring up for him who wants ornaments.
There too are produced [musk] and [camphor] and ambergris and agila,
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And ivory there, and teak (al-sāj) and aloeswood and sandal...."
Quoted by Kazwini, in Gildemeister, 217-218.
The following order, in a King's Letter to the Goa Government, no doubt refers to Pegu teak, though not naming the particular timber: