Persian Textiles — Asbestos 501 



found in the Kifu Vuh ci, 1 on asbestos of Se-SVan in the Se Pwan fun U* 

 In the eighteenth century the Chinese noticed asbestos among the 

 Portuguese of Macao, but the article was rarely to be found in the 

 market. 3 HanzO Murakami discusses asbestos (^ $$, "stone cotton") 

 as occurring in the proximity of Kin-cou 4£ ilfti in Sen-kin, Manchuria. 4 



In regard to the salamander, Francisque-Michel 5 refers to "Tradi- 

 tions teratologiques de Berger de Xivrey" (Paris, Imprimerie royale, 

 1836, pp. 457, 458, 460, 463) and to an article of Duchalais entitled 

 "L'Apollon sauroctone" {Revue archiologique, Vol. VI, 1850, pp. 87-90); 

 further to Mahudel in Memoires de litterature tiris des registres de 

 V Acad&mie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Vol. IV, pp. 634-647. 

 Quoting several examples of salamander stuff from mediaeval romances, 

 Francisque-Michel remarks, "Ces £toffes en poil de salamandre, qui 

 vraisemblablement 6taient pass£es des fables des marchands dans celles 

 des poetes, venaient de loin, comme ceux qui avaient par la beau jeu 

 pour mentir. On en faisait aussi des manteaux; du moins celui de 

 dame Jafite, du Roman de Gui le Gallois, en £tait." 



No one interested in this subject should fail to read chapter LII of 

 book III of Rabelais' Le Gargantua et Le Pantagruel, entitled "Comment 

 doibt estre prepare* et mis en ceuvre le celebre Pantagruelion." 



77. The word "drugget," spelled also droggitt, drogatt, druggit (Old French 

 droguet, Spanish droguete, Italian droghetto) is thus denned in the new Oxford English 

 Dictionary: "Ulterior origin unknown. Littr6 suggests derivation from drogue 

 drug as 'a stuff of little value'; some English writers have assumed a derivation 

 from Drogheda in Ireland, but this is mere wanton conjecture, without any histor- 

 ical basis. Formerly kind of stuff, all of wool, or mixed of wool and silk or wool and 

 linen, used for wearing apparel. Now, a coarse woollen stuff for floor-coverings, 

 table-cloths, etc." The Century Dictionary says, "There is nothing to show a con- 

 nection with drug." 



Our lexicographers have overlooked the fact that the same word occurs also 

 in Slavic. F. Miklosich 8 has indicated a Serbian doroc ("pallii genus") and Magyar 

 darocz ("a kind of coarse cloth"), but neglected to refer to the well-known Russian 

 word dorogi or ddrogi, which apparently represents the source of the West-European 

 term. The latter has been dealt with by K. Inostrantsev 7 in a very interesting 



1 Ch. 74, pp. 10 b, 13. 

 1 Ch. 74, p. 25. 



3 Ao-men li Ho, Ch. B, p. 41. 



4 Journal Geol. Soc. Tokyo, Vol. XXIII, No. 276, 1916, pp. 333-336. The 

 same journal, Vol. XXV, No. 294, March, 1918, contains an article on asbestos in 

 Japan and Korea by K. Okada. 



5 Recherches sur le commerce, la fabrication et l'usage des eloffes de soie, d'or 

 et d'argent, Vol. II, pp. 90, 462 (Paris, 1854). 



• Fremdworter in den slavischen Sprachen, Denk. Wiener Akad., Vol. XV, 

 1867, p. 84. 



7 Iz istorii starinnix tkanei, Zapiski of the Russian Arch. Soc, Vol. XIII, 1902, 

 p. 084. 



