nor in _rudbar-i-lass_.... How common _lass_ is, you
may see from one fact, that it occurs in children's reading-books." We
must not take _Reobarles_ in Marco's French as rhyming to (French)
_Charles_; every syllable sounds. It is remarkable that _Las_, as the
name of a small State near our Sind frontier, is said to mean, "in the
language of the country," _a level plain_. (_J. A. S. B._ VIII. 195.)
It is not clear what is meant by the language of the country. The
chief is a Brahui, the people are Lumri or Numri Biluchis, who are,
according to Tod, of Jat descent.
[2] Sir Henry Rawlinson objects to this identification (which is the same
that Dr. Karl Mueller adopts), saying that _Organa_ is more probably
"Angan, formerly Argan." To this I cannot assent. Nearchus sails 300
stadia from the mouth of Anamis to Oaracta, and _on his way_ passes
Organa. Taking 600 stadia to the degree (Dr. Mueller's value), I make
it just 300 stadia from the mouth of the Hormuz creek to the eastern
point of Kishm. Organa must have been either Jerun or Larek; Angan
(_Hanjam_ of Mas'udi) is out of the question. And as a straight run
must have passed quite close to Jerun, not to Larek, I find the former
most probable. Nearchus next day proceeds 200 stadia along Oaracta,
and anchors in sight of another island (Neptune's) which was separated
by 40 stadia from Oaracta. _This_ was Angan; no other island answers,
and for this the distances answer with singular precision.
[3] Moore refers to _Persian Tales_.
[4] This _tison_ can be seen in the cuts from the tomb of St. Peter Martyr
and the seal of Winchelsea.
[5] _Spere_, bundles of spars, etc., dragged overboard.
CHAPTER XX.
OF THE WEARISOME AND DESERT ROAD THAT HAS NOW TO BE TRAVELLED.
On departing from the city of Kerman you find the road for seven days most
wearisome; and I will tell you how this is.[NOTE 1] The first three days
you meet with no water, or next to none. And what little you do meet with
is bitter green stuff, so salt that no one can drink it; and in fact if
you drink a drop of it, it will set you purging ten times at least by the
way. It is the same with the salt which is made from those streams; no one
dares to make use of it, because of the excessive purging which it
occasions. Hence it is necessary to carry water for the people to last
these three days; as for the cattle, they
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