Vulgar words in A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 - Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and - Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth - Century, By William Stevenson (Page 1)
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In the time of Artemidorus, however, the trade of Egypt on the coast of Africa had reached as low down as the Southern Horn; that this trade was still in its infancy, is apparent from a circumstance mentioned by Strabo, on the authority of Artemidorus; that at the straits the cargo was transferred from ships to boats; bastard cinnamon, perhaps casia lignea or hard cinnamon, is specified as one of the principal articles which the Egyptians obtained from the coast of Africa, when they passed the straits of Babelmandeb.