Soc. 108, 120; Gildemeister, 194;
Allen's Indian Mail, July 28, 1869; Mid.
Kingd.
I. 293; N. et Ext.
XIII. i. 380; Mat. Paris under A.D. 1250; Tod's Rajasthan, I. 114.)
NOTE 3. - The Camphor called Fansuri is celebrated by Arab writers at
least as old as the 9th century, e.g., by the author of the first part
of the Relations, by Mas'udi in the next century, also by Avicenna, by
Abulfeda, by Kazwini, and by Abul Fazl, etc. In the second and third the
name is miswritten Kansur, and by the last Kaisuri, but there can be
no doubt of the correction required. (Reinaud, I. 7; Mas. I. 338;
Liber Canonis, Ven. 1544, I. 116; Buesching, IV. 277; Gildem. p. 209;
Ain-i-Akb. p. 78.) In Serapion we find the same camphor described as
that of Pansor; and when, leaving Arab authorities and the earlier
Middle Ages we come to Garcias, he speaks of the same article under the
name of camphor of Barros. And this is the name - Kapur Barus - derived
from the port which has been the chief shipping-place of Sumatran camphor
for at least three centuries, by which the native camphor is still known
in Eastern trade, as distinguished from the Kapur China or
Kapur-Japun, as the Malays term the article derived in those countries by
distillation from the Laurus Camphora. The earliest western mention of
camphor is in the same prescription by the physician Aetius (circa A.D.
540) that contains one of the earliest mentions of musk.
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