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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES.

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Branchicha   . Somewhere near Czernikov, where we hear of a

great forest of Branki (Magini). There was also a city Bransko in the same quarter.

Chiva   . Kiev.

Canada   Caminietz ?

Calamit   . Eupatoria ? on Kalamita Bay.

Cembaro .   . Balaclava (see p. 173).

Soldaya .   Sudak.

CAFFA.

Porto Pisano   . Taganrog.

Tana   . Azov.

Egypt.

Larissa .   El-Arish.

Damiyat .   . Damietta

Casar Bochir   . Abukir'

ALEXANDRIA.

Chayre .   . Cairo

Babillonia   . Old Cairo (p. 387).

Bussi   . Bûsh, near Beni Suef (see Ibn Bat. ii. 95),

Mijnere .   . Minieh

Ieuch (read Seuth) . Sint

Chossa   .   . Ias (see p. 399, note 2).

Tegia   . ? near Luksor. Possibly should read Begia, a
station of the Bejah tribes of the Red Sea desert who held the emerald mines of Berenice ; see quotation from Masudi in Corrections below.

Ansee   Esneh
Lialeyse (read S—) . Silsilah

Sohan   Assuan

Hurma   . Darmut ?

DON COLA .   . (Old Donkola). The Dominican Bartholomew of

Tivoli was made Missionary Bishop of Don-kola in 1330 (Le Quien, iii, 1414).

Coale   Ghalwa of Edrisi (i, 33).

Dobaha   . Al-Dabah, above Donkola.

Sobaha   . Sobah, the ruins of which are near Khartum ?

Ciutat Sioene   : ; From the ancients.

Insula Meroe

Ciutat de Nubia   . Hudbah of Edrisi, i, 25.

Al-Bayadi   Little Oasis ?

Desert de Gipte   . Lybian Desert.

Coast of Red Sea.

Mns. of Barchium.

Meda   . Suakin ?