Yule Places The Founding
Somewhat Earlier; And Valentyn, On What Authority I Know Not, Gives A.D.
700 As The Date Of The Founder Muhammad."
XIX., I., p. 116; II., p. 444.
DIET OF THE GULF PEOPLE.
Prof. E.H. Parker says that the T'ang History, in treating of the Arab
conquests of Fuh-lin [or Frank] territory, alludes to the "date and dry
fish diet of the Gulf people." The exact Chinese words are: "They feed
their horses on dried fish, and themselves subsist on the hu-mang, or
Persian date, as Bretschneider has explained." (Asiatic Quart. Rev.,
Jan., 1904, p. 134.)
Bretschneider, in Med. Researches, II., p. 134, n. 873, with regard to
the dates writes: "Wan nien tsao, 'ten thousand years' jujubes'; called
also Po-sze tao, or 'Persian jujubes.' These names and others were
applied since the time of the T'ang dynasty to the dates brought from
Persia. The author of the Pen ts'ao kang mu (end of the sixteenth
century) states that this fruit is called k'u-lu-ma in Persia. The
Persian name of the date is khurma."
Cf. CHAU JU-KWA, p. 210.
XXII., p. 128 n.
TUN-O-KAIN.
Major Sykes had adopted Sir Henry Yule's theory of the route from
Kuh-benan to Tun. He has since altered his opinion in the Geographical
Journal, October, 1905, p. 465: "I was under the impression that a route
ran direct from Kubunan to Tabas, but when visiting this latter town a few
months ago I made careful inquiries on the subject, which elicited the fact
that this was not the case, and that the route invariably followed by
Kubunan-Tabas caravans joined the Kerman-Ravar-Naiband route at Chah-Kuru,
12 miles south of Darbana.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 1175 of 1350
Words from 322549 to 322841
of 370046
