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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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