For detailed information about the larin, see _Voyage of Pyrard de Laval, ut supra_, i, p.

232 and note 2; and ii, p.

68.
[66] "Next, many watered camlets of Persia and Ormus, of all colours, made of the wool of large sheep that have not curled fleeces like ours.

Of it they make also good store of cloaks and capes, called by the Indians _Mansans_, and by the Portuguese 'Ormus _cambalis_;' they are made of the same wool, in bands of different colours, each four inches wide.

Everyone takes these to sea for a protection from the rain.