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MARCO POLO.   VOL. I. BK. I.

and thus down to Arnawai on the Kunar. Thence Dir could be

gained directly across the Zakhanna Pass, a single day's march.

There were alternative routes, too, available to the same destina-

tion either by ascending the Kunar to Ashreth and taking the

present ' Chitral Road ' across the Lowarai, or descending the

river to Asmar and crossing the Binshi Pass."

From Dir towards Kashmir for a large body of horsemen

" the easiest and in matter of time nearest route must have led

them as now down the Pan j kora Valley and beyond through the

open tracts of Lower Swāt and Buner to the Indus about Amb.

From there it was easy through the open northern part of the

present Hazara District (the ancient Urasa) to gain the valley

of the Jhelam River at its sharp bend near Muzzaffarabad."

The name of Agror (the direct phonetic derivative of the

Sanskrit Atyugrapura) = Ariora ; it is the name of the hill-

tract on the Hazara border which faces Buner on the east from

across the left bank of the Indus.

XVIII., p. i o' .

Line 17, Note 4. Korano of the Indo-Scythic Coins is to be

read Kosano. (PELLIOT.)

18.  p. 102.

On the Mongols of Afghanistān, see RAMSTEDT, Mogholica,

in Journ. de la Soc. Finno-Ougrienne, XXIII., 1905. (PELLIOT.)

19.  p. I07. " The King is called RUOMEDAN AHOMET."

About 106o, Mohammed I. Dirhem Kub, from Yemen,

became master of Hormuz, but his successors remained in the

dependency of the sovereigns of Kermán until 1249, when

Rokn ed-Din Mahmud III. Kalhaty (1242-1277) became in-

dependent. His successors in Polo's time were Seif ed-Din

Nusrat (1277-1290), Mas'ud (1290-1293), Beha ed-Din Ayaz

Seyfin (1293--131I).

XIX., p. I15.

HORMOS.

The Travels of Pedro Teixeira, a Portuguese traveller,

probably of Jewish origin, certainly not a Jesuit, have been

published by the Hakluyt Society :

The Travels of Pedro Teixeira ; with his " Kings of Harmuz,"

and extracts from his " King of Persia." Translated and

annotated by William F. Sinclair, Bombay Civil Service (Rtd.) ;

With further Notes and an Introduction by Donald Ferguson,