[478] These sites are unknown.
[479] Forms two bays or gulfs in succession.
[480] He gives this name to the whole expanse of sea that lies between Arabia and Africa on the west, and India on the east, including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
[481] Or Erythrus. In all probability entirely a mythical personage. The sea having been called in Greek ἐρυθραῖα, or “red”—the legend most probably thence took its rise. No very satisfactory reason has yet been given for its being so called. The Hebrew name of it signifies the “Sedgy Sea.”
[482] From Azania in Æthiopia, mentioned again in c. 34 of the present Book.
[483] The maps appear to make it considerably more.
[484] The only feature of resemblance appears to be its comparative narrowness at the neck.
[485] Or “turtle-eaters.”
[486] Different probably from the Cophis mentioned in c. 25, which was also called Arabius or Arbis, and probably represented by the modern Purali.
[487] Of Harmozon, probably the modern Bombareek.