and Leuke Kome, to the coast of Africa, although only in small quantities. Plated silver, and flint glass, or crystal, were shipped to a considerable extent; while corn from Egypt constituted one of the most bulky articles of export to the more populous of the places we have named.
Moosa. The merchants of Alexandria, likewise, carried on an extensive and valuable commerce with various ports in Arabia, especially with Moosa, at the entrance to the Red Sea, a place believed to have had a very ancient trade with India. Moosa also imported large quantities of coffee from Africa, and, mixing it with the coffee of Arabia, sold the adulterated article as the produce of the latter country. Its imports from Egypt consisted, among other manufactures, of various descriptions of cloths, and of clothes made up after the Arabian fashion, with sleeves plain and embroidered. Its merchants gave in exchange the produce of their own country, and that of India, imported in their own vessels from Baroach.
Yemen, or Arabia Felix.
Its great wealth,
There are few lands more extolled in ancient history
for their natural richness, both as regards its mines
and the productiveness of its soil, than Yemen, or
Arabia Felix, the country of the Queen of Sheba, of
which Moosa was the chief port. Though separated
from India by an open sea, it was yet intimately
connected with it by nature; a sky of great serenity
enabling its mariners to make full use of the stars
as their guides, and thus sparing them the labour and
anxiety of slowly creeping along the coast, as was
elsewhere necessary. Arabia was above all others the
native country of frankincense, of myrrh, and of other
aromcati perfumes, productions then held in such
