aloes-wood

Updated: July 26, 2025

But there are still the perfumes and the essences. So I brought him a box, containing fifty dinars' worth of aloes-wood and ambergris and musk and other perfumes.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

Fine pearls come from the coast of Armuzi , 700 leagues from Calicut. Spikenard and myrabolans from the province of Columbaia , 600 leagues from Calicut. Cassia in twigs is procured in the territory of Calicut. Frankincense is brought from Saboea , 800 leagues distant. Aloes-wood, rhubarb, camphor, and calinga, is sent from the country of Chiva , 4000 leagues from Calicut.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time