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NOTE 3

NOTE 3.–I can have no doubt of the genuineness of this passage from
Ramusio. Indeed some such passage is necessary; otherwise why distinguish
between three days of desert and four days more of desert? The underground
stream was probably a subterraneous canal (called _Kant_ or _Krez_),
such as is common in Persia; often conducted from a great distance. Here
it […]

NOTE 1

We may observe that Severtsof asserts _Pamir_ to be a generic term,

So there they abode at the Court with the other Barons

(_D”Ohsson_, IV

Of the cloths called _nakh_ and _nasij_ we have spoken before (supra ch

In Persia is the city of SABA, from which the Three Magi set out when they

CHAPTER VII

There is nothing in the old French texts to justify the usual statement

[7] I had entirely forgotten to look at Trigault till Mr