Zocotara
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1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.
ZOCOTARA Iland. The Iland of Zocotara lieth in the mouth of the red Sea, 10 degrees North from the Equator, wherein the Portugals have fortified two Townes for traf∣fique, it is replenished with drugges for Physicke, and especially, with that so excellent and well knowne in Christendome, by the name of Aloes Zocatrina which is sold there by a quintall which (by observation) makes in England, 93. li.