(See Devic, Dict.

Etym.) - H. C.] In the commercial lists of our Indian north-west frontier we find as synonymous Saghri or Kimukht, "Horse or Ass-hide." No doubt this latter word is a form of Kamu or Camut.

It appears (as Keimukht, "a sort of leather") in a detail of imports to Aden given by Ibn al Wardi, a geographer of the 13th century.

Instead of Camut, Ramusio has Camoscia, i.e. Chamois, and the same seems to be in all the editions based on Fra Pipino's version. It may be a misrendering of camutum or camutium; or is there any real connexion between the Oriental Kamu Kimukht, and the Italian camoscia? (I. B. II. 445; Klapr. Mem. vol. III.; Davies's Trade Report, App. p. ccxx.; Vambery's Travels, 423; Not. et Ext. II. 43.)

Fraehn (writing in 1832) observes that he knew no use of the word Bolghar, in the sense of Russian leather, older than the 17th century. But we see that both Marco and Ibn Batuta use it. (F. on the Wolga Bulghars, pp. 8-9.)

Pauthier in a note (p. 285) gives a list of the garments issued to certain officials on these ceremonial occasions under the Mongols, and sure enough this list includes "pairs of boots in red leather." Odoric particularly mentions the broad golden girdles worn at the Kaan's court.

[La Curne, Dict., has Bulga, leather bag; old Gallic word from which are derived bouge et bougete, bourse; he adds in a note, "Festus writes:

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