STEFANO, HIERONI310 DI SANTO, a Geno ese, visited India about 1474-99 as a merchant. At Cairo Ile laid in a stock of coral beads and other wares, and passed down the Nile to Cane (Kenell), from which he travelled by land through the Egyptian desert for seven days to Cosir (Cos.seir) on the Red Sea, where he embarked on board a ship, which in 25 days carried him to Mazua (31assouali) off the country of Prester John; and in 25 days more, during which he saw plenty of boats fishing for pearls, to Adorn (Aden); and in 35 days more to Calieut. 1Ve found that pepper and ginger grew here, . . . and the nut of India ' (cocoanuts). From Calicut he sailed in another ship, and in 26 days reached Ceylon, in which grow cinnamon trees, . . . many precious stones; such as garnets, jacinths, cats'-eyes, and other gemq, . . . and trees of the sort which bears the nut of India.' De.parting thence after twelve days, he arrived at a. port on the cow, of Coro mandel, where the red sandal-wood grows; and, after a long stay, depariing thence in another ship, after 27 days reached Pegu in I,ower India. This country (Pegu) is distant 15 daya' journey by land from another, called A va, in which grow rubies and many other precious stones. From
Pegu, where he suffered many and great troubles, he set sail to go to Malacca, and, after being at sea 25 days, one morning found himself in a port of Sumatra, where grows pepper in considerable quantities, silk, long pepper, benzoin, white sandal wood, and many other articles. After further and greater troubles suffered here, he took ship to Cambay, whero, after six months' detention among the Maldives, and subsequent shipwreck, he at length arrived, but stripped of all his goods. Ile notices that Cambay produced lac and indigo. In his destitution he was assisted by a Moorish merchant of Alexandria and Damascus, and after a thne proceeded in the ship of a sheriff of Damascus as supercargo to Ormuz, in sailing to which place from Cambay he was GO days at sea. From Ormuz, in company with some Armenian and Azarni (Irak-Ajemi) merchants, he travelled by land to Shiraz, Ispahan, Kazan, Sultaniyeh, and to Tauris ; whence he went on with a caravan, which was plundered by the way, to Aleppo, and finally to Tripoli in Syria.—India in the 15th Cen tury ; Dr. Birdwood s R.ecords.