farazola lx, and the very good lxx fanams.”—Barbosa (Tariff of Prices at Calicut), 222.
„ “Benjuy, which
is a resin of trees which the Moors call luban javi.”—Ibid. 188.
1539.—“Cinco quintais de beijoim de
boninas.”1—Pinto, cap. xiii.
1563.—“And all these species of benjuy the inhabitants of the country call
cominham,2 but the Moors call them louan jaoy, i.e. ‘incense of Java’…for the Arabs call incense louan.”—Gaxcia,
f. 29v.
1584.—“Belzuinum mandolalo* from Sian and Baros. Belzuinum, burned, from Bonnia”
(Borneo?).—Barret, in Hakl. ii. 413.
1612.—“Beniamin, the pund iiii li.”—Rates and Valuatioun of Merchandize
(Scotland), pub. by the Treasury, Edin. 1867, p. 298.