- E.
[2] Meluza may possibly be the city of Malacca, then a great emporium of
Indian trade; but it is impossible to reconcile or explain Meluza in
Cananore twelve leagues from Calicut, and Meluza 740 leagues from
thence. - E.
[3] This may possibly refer to the island of Ramisseram in the straits of
Manaar, between Ceylon and the Coromandel coast, near which the famous
pearl fishery is still carried on. - E.
[4] Evidently Cambaya or Guzerat. - E.
[5] Probably Cassia lignea, or in rolled up bark like twigs, to
distinguish it from the drug called Cassia fistula. - E.
[6] Perhaps the coast of Habesh on the Red Sea. - E.
[7] Probably a typographical error for China. - E.
[8] Alluding to some part of the coast of Arabia. - E.
[9] Perhaps Zedoary, repeated afterwards under its right name. - E.
[10] Same and Zan probably are meant to indicate some of the Indian
islands. Same may be Sumatra. Zan may be some port in Zangibar, on the
eastern coast of Africa. - E.
[11] Samoterra probably alludes to some port in the Bay of Bengal.
Tannazar, almost certainly Tanaserim in Siam. Adde, probably is Adel
or Aden in Arabia. - E.
End of A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II, by Robert Kerr
