It Is Clear, From Salt, That Such
Branding Was Practised By Many Abyssinians, And That To A Recent Date,
Though It May Have Been Entirely Detached From Baptism.
A similar practice
is followed at Dwarika and Koteswar (on the old Indus mouth, now called
Lakpat River), where the Hindu pilgrims to these sacred sites are branded
with the mark of the god.
(Orient und Occident, Goettingen, 1862, I. 453; Frescob. 114;
Clavijo, 163; Ramus. I. f. 290, v., f. 184; Marin. Sanud. 185, and
Bk. iii. pt. viii. ch. iv.; Clusius, Exotica, pt. ii. p. 142; Orland.
Fur. XXXIII. st. 102; Voyage en Perse, dans les Annees 1807-1809;
Assemani, II. c.; Ludolf, iii. 6, sec. 41; Salt, in Valentia's
Trav. II. p. 505, and his Second Journey, French Tr., II. 219; M.
Paris, p. 373; J.R.A.S. I. 42.)
NOTE 3. - It is pretty clear from what follows (as Marsden and others have
noted) that the narrative requires us to conceive of the Sultan of Aden as
dominant over the territory between Abyssinia and the sea, or what was in
former days called ADEL, between which and Aden confusion seems to have
been made. I have noticed in Note 1 the appearance of this confusion in R.
Benjamin; and I may add that also in the Map of Marino Sanudo Aden is
represented on the western shore of the Red Sea. But is it not possible
that in the origin of the Mahomedan States of Adel the Sultan of Aden had
some power over them?
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