- E. [7] It Is Difficult To Say Anything Certain Of The Countries To Which This Story Relates; Which May Have Been Some Of The Islands Now Called Philipines, Or Perhaps Some Of The Islands In The Straits Of Sunda. - Harris.

Such is the opinion of the editor of Harris's Collection.

But I am disposed, especially from the rivers mentioned, to consider Zapage as Pegu; and that Malacca, Sumatra, and Java, were the dependent islands; and particularly, that Malacca, as the great mart of early trade, though actually no island, was the Cala of Abu Zeid. Siam, or Cambodia may have been the kingdom of Komar. - E.

[8] This alludes to the custom of the Arabs, and other orientals, to squat upon this occasion. - E.

[9] It is presumable, that this was a mere bravado, in the full confidence that no one would be found sufficiently foolhardy to engage to follow the example. It is needless to say, that the promise of laughing aloud could not have been performed; so that any one might have safely accepted the challenge, conditioning for the full performance of the vaunt. - E.

[10] Rubies, emeralds, and topazes. - E.

[11] Obviously Canoge, in Bengal. - E.

[12] Buddah, the principal god of an extensive sect, now chiefly confined to Ceylon, and India beyond the Ganges. - E.

[13] The author makes here an abrupt transition to the eastern coast of Africa, and calls it the country of the Zinges; congeneric with the country of Zanguebar, and including Azania, Ajen, and Adel, on the north; and Inhambane, Sabia, Sofala, Mocaranga, Mozambique, and Querimba, to the south; all known to, and frequented by the Arabs.

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