[102] _Banians_, "Indian merchants," more especially from the Province of Gujarat, who from time immemorial have traded with the harbor-towns of Arabia. [103] _Rajput_, a warlike race, probably descended from the ural-Altaic race. [104] This can not be the town of that name in Bengal, as this lies more to the south and could not be reached from Ahmedabad in five days. [105] Radhanpur, the capital of the district of that name in the Presidency of Bombay. [106] More correctly Parkar or Nagar-Parkar, the name of a district and a place in the Presidency of Bombay. [107] _Muhre_, "a stone," which, so says the legend, is found in the head of the serpent and the dragon, and possesses miraculous power. Many Dervishes carry one of these stones in their girdle to trade upon the superstition of the ignorant people. [108] As a town, Wanga is unknown to me, unless it be intended for Wanna, in the district of Cathiawar in the Presidency of Bombay. [109] More correctly Junaghar, the name of a Province and town in Cathiawar, Presidency of Bombay. [110] The Indus. [111] Tatta (Thats, or Nagar Thats), in the District of Karachi. [112] _Nakara_, "a band of music," was formerly considered in Central Asia as a sign of sovereignty. [113] _Serpay vermek_, "to distribute festive apparel," is a great mark of distinction in Central Asia, but as the expression is unknown in Turkey the author has had to circumscribe it. [114] "He gave us the name of: a mystic army," [115] Literally, "there should be no dragonstone, _i.e._, sorcery, in your guns." [116] Argun and Tarkhan are two Turkish tribes in Central Asia, direct descendants of the Transoxanian warriors, which came with Baber to India. [117] Now Nasirabad, the name of several places in Sind. [118] Perhaps meant for Sehivan in Naushar on the Indus. [119] Patri, now a station on the railway-line to Bombay, Baroda, and Central India; also the name of a small State belonging to Kathiawar. [120] Our author, according to the spirit of the age, was not only a brave warrior and sailor, but also a poet, using the East-Turkish Dialect (Djagatai). His muse has no special features, and with regard to his choice of words they betray a strong tendency toward the Osmanli dialect. It is nevertheless interesting to note in how short a time he mastered this dialect and that, more than 100 years after Baber, the Djagatai tongue maintained itself as the court-and-book-language in India. In our translation we necessarily omit these poetic effusions as irrelevant. [121] Literally, "wandering." [122] In the text _Kheime_ we _shamiane_, the latter being more a kind of large sunshade. [123] As there are several places called Sultanpoor and Mav, the stations here mentioned are difficult to identify on the map. [124] Utch, a small place on the left bank of the Pendtjend, a tributary of the Indus. [125] On modern maps of India it is marked as Gharra, by which name the Sutlej is also known.