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chained_bear commented on the word kheyst
"In the words of the accompanying inscription, these intrepid ancient mariners" (on history's first recorded merchant fleet between 2491 and 2477 B.C.) "brought back to the Nile 'all goodly fragrant woods of God's-Land, heaps of myrrh resin, with fresh myrrh trees, with ebony, and pure ivory, with green gold of Emu, with cinnamon wood, kheyst wood, with ihmut-incense, sonter-incense, eye-cosmetic, with apes, monkeys, dogs, and with skins of the southern panther, with natives and their children.'"
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 238
December 6, 2016