ABSTRACT

W h e n we had sailed about twelve days we arrived at a city which is called Diuobandierrumi,1 that is, “ Diu, the port o f

1 Though Yarthema heads this chapter as relating to Persia, the two places first named obviously belong to the Indian province of Guzerat, and the change in the course o f the vessel in which he sailed, originally bound for the former country, may have been caused by the shipment of cargo for those places at Zaila and Berbera, between which and the S6m&li coast there is still considerable traffic.