Hirth, F: Chau Ju-Kua -

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Excerpt from Chau Ju-Kua: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Entitled Chu-Fan-Chi?

When King Solomon, in the early part of the tenth century B. C., had opened relations with the Sabeans of the Southern coast of Arabia, the land of Punt of the Egyptians, he sent his ships from the head of the Red Sea to the land of Ophir, -generally believed to have been Guzerat or the Malabar coast. Already at that remote time trade by sea was active between the ports on the south coast of Arabia, the principal of which was where Aden now stands, and Western India. The ships of the Sabeans carried the products of Arabia and India to the heads of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. By the former route they reached the cities of the Phoenicians; by the latter they came to Media and Nineveh.

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