The Ships of the Arabian Sea about A.D. 1500

^{page 173 note 1} It will be recalled that when the Turksbuilt fleets at Suez to attack the Portuguese, the timber was either transported from the Mediterranean across Egypt, or was brought by sea from the Konkan (Correa, i, 746; iii, 450, and passim). Hormuz imported timber from Ceylon (Correa, i, 646), but only, I think, for repairs and refitting.

^{page 176 note 1} The kings of Gujarāt cannot as a rule be described as pious, but this very fact would make it advisable for them to conciliate their pious subjects when they could do so at a profit.

^{page 183 note 1} I have not reproduced Clavijo's account of the Arab ships, because it is obviously hearsay; his route did notbring him near the Arabian Sea.

^{page 184 note 1} A third timber, the wild jack or angelim (Artocarpus hirsida), was used for building the barges (toné) which carried pepper on the inland waterways in Malabar (Correa, i, 405). I have not traced its use for sea-going vessels, but in any case it can be nailed.

^{page 186 note 1} In recent times benteak has been cheaper than teak, but the difference has not been very material. I have traced nofigures for comparative prices in the eighteenth century.

^{page 188 note 1} For the absence of pumps in mining, seeMethwold on the Kollur diamond mines (Hakl. Soc, ii, 66, p. 32)