These all have conspired and joined in common league to present unto Zeilan the chiefe of worldly treasures and pleasures, with a long and healthfull life in the inhabitants to enjoye them.

No marvell, then, if sense and sensualitie have heere stumbled on a paradise."] [Footnote 2: The fable of the "spicy breezes" said to blow from Arabia and India, is as old as Ctesias; and is eagerly repeated by Pliny?
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xii.c.42.The Greeks borrowed the tale from the Hindus, who believe that the _Chandana_ or sandal-wood imparts its odours to the winds; and their poete speak of the Malayan as the westerns did of the Sabaean breezes.

But the allusion to such perfumed winds was a trope common to all the discoverers of unknown lands: the companions of Columbus ascribed them to the region of the Antilles; and Verrazani and Sir Walter Raleigh scented them off the coast of Carolina.

Milton borrowed from Diodorus Siculus, lib.iii.c.46, the statement that: "Far off at sea north-east winds blow Sabaean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest." (_P.L._ iv.

163.) Ariosto employs the same imaginative embellishment to describe the charms of Cyprus: "Serpillo e persa e rose e gigli e croco Spargon dall'odorifero terreno Tanta suavita, ch'in mar sentire La fa ogni vento che da terra spire." (_Oil.