"The goods used in trading are ivory boxes, trade silver, coloured satins,
and the like." (ROCKHILL, T'oung Pao, XVI., 1915, pp. 622-3.) Cf. CHAU
JU-KWA, p. 126.
XXXIV., p. 423. "There is a great deal of trade, and many merchants and
vessels go thither. But the staple trade of the Island is elephants'
teeth, which are very abundant; and they have also much ambergris, as
whales are plentiful."
Chau Ju-kwa has, p. 126: "The products of the country [Ts'oeng-pa] consist
of elephants' tusks, native gold, ambergris and yellow sandal-wood."
XXXVI., p. 438.
ADEN.
In the Ying yai sheng lan we read that "the kingdom (of A-tan) is on the
sea-coast. It is rich and prosperous, the people follow the doctrine of
the Moslims and their speech is Arabic. Their tempers are overbearing and
violent. They have seven to eight thousand well-trained soldiers, horse
and foot, whom the neighbouring countries fear." (W.W. ROCKHILL, T'oung
Pao XVI., 1915, p. 607.) There is a description of the giraffe under the
name of K'i lin; it "has forelegs over nine feet long, its hind ones are
about six feet. Beside its ears grow fleshy horns. It has a cow's tail and
a deer's body. It eats millet, beans, and flour cakes" (p. 609). In the
Si Yang Chao kung tien lu (1520 A.D.), we have a similar description:
"Its front legs are nine feet long, its hind legs six feet.
