abouzeyd

Updated: May 3, 2025

In fact, two centuries later Abouzeyd, an Arab, who wrote an account of the trade and productions of India, speaks of these shells by the name they still bear, which he states to be schenek ; but "schenek" is not an Arabic word, and is merely an attempt to spell the local term, chank, in Arabic characters.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon