[152] "It is not like the Sea of India, whose bottom is rich with pearls and ambergris, whose mountains of the coast are stored with gold and precious stones, whose gulfs breed creatures that yield ivory, and among the plants of whose shores are ebony, red wood, and the wood of Hairzan, aloes, camphor, cloves, sandal-wood, and all other spices and aromatics; where parrots and peacocks are birds of the forest, and musk and civit are collected upon the lands."—Travels of Two Mohammedans.
[153] "With this immense treasure Mamood returned to Ghizni and in the year 400 prepared a magnificent festival, where he displayed to the people his wealth in golden thrones and in other ornaments, in a great plain without the city of Ghizni." Ferishta.
[154] "Mahmood of Gazna, or Chizni, who conquered India in the beginning of the 11th century."—See his History in Dow and Sir J. Malcolm.
[155] "It is reported that the hunting equipage of the Sultan Mahmood was so magnificent, that he kept 400 greyhounds and bloodhounds each of which wore a collar set with jewels and a covering edged with gold and pearls."—Universal History, vol. iii.
[156] "The Mountains of the Moon, or the Montes Lunae of antiquity, at the foot of which the Nile is supposed to arise."—Bruce.
[157] "The Nile, which the Abyssinians know by the names of Abey and Alawy or the Giant."—Asiat. Research. vol. i. p. 387.
[158] See Perry's View of the Levant for an account of the sepulchres in Upper Thebes, and the numberless grots, covered all over with hieroglyphics in the mountains of Upper Egypt.
[159] "The orchards of Rosetta are filled with turtle-doves.—Sonnini.
[160] Savary mentions the pelicans upon Lake Moeris.
[161] "The superb date-tree, whose head languidly reclines, like that of a handsome woman overcome with sleep."—Dafard el Hadad.