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À KAZEM-BEG, 
ligion.» — So saying, he prepared the expe- 
dition. He passed those derbends, conquered 
many towns, and converted (the inhabitants 
of) many districts to the true faith, si at 
last, having passed about 200 parasangs 
rived on the frontiers of Bulkher. He da 
the pleasure of seeing many countries; made 
wars for religion; subdued many towns, and 
returned to Derbend (ï. e. Babul-abwab), where 
he dwelt contented with having converted so 
many souls to Islam. He remained in those parts 
during the reign of Omar and died there during 
the reign of Othman. 
After the death of 4bdur-Rehman one of 
Jæ|his companions, who had followed him in the 
said wars for religion, came into the presence 
of Amir-ul-muminin Omar (Othman) . His 
12 Add. N. In Bal’amy’s translation we read: J£ y Jil YU Dl Ek,s uw 9) 9 i. e. «and he pene- 
trated into that country, as far as 200 fersengsn. Every ferseng being reckoned something more than a geogra- 
phical mile, we suppose that the extent mentioned here, (more than 800 Engl. miles) included all the way between 
Derberid, Bulkher, and farther till the great Cabarda of this day, where the Arabian troops were dispersed in 
different directions. — We have observed above (Remark 17 — 19 to Part I.) that the Eastern Geographers 
have given us three different names of towns and countries in Daghistan: Balkh, Bulker and Belenjer, and that the 
confusion arises chiefly from the carelessness of the copyists, and partly from the errors or misunderstanding to 
which have been led by different causes the geographers of the IX century. I must add here that when the first part 
of this work was in press and some sheets of it were already printed, I was convinced by some new information 1 
received, that on the way of the Arabsin their expeditions into Daghistan at different times, there must have lain two 
countries or principalities bearing consonant names of Vallagars and Balkhars which might be spelled by the first 
Arabs who related of them: sb and sb. The first of these is now a small society of barbarians who live in the 
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northern limits of the actual Ossetia or the ancient Oss (ue) on a rivulet called 4rdan, not for from Vladi- 
Cavcas and of Darial. (It lies on the N. W. of Darial about 9 miles distance; but there is no straight road or 
pass between them.) The second of them is a more populous society than the first, in the direction of N. W. 
from Ossetia and on the southern frontiers of the great Cabarda on the north of the mountains of 4ghish- 
takh and Machikhbar. Taking this into consideration 1 cannot help being convinced that the historians of the 
Arabs, or the early copyists of their works, confounded the two names, mistook sb or JE for an imaginary 
sd and confounded them all (the sound g in the first might be expressed by ë or by el Therefore I 
think that Belenjer never existed and that it is the corruption of one of the first two names. 
13 4dd. N. 1 have put Othman in parenthesis, because our text says that the companion of Abdur-Rehman 
returned to the Khaïif after the death of that general, which occurred after the death of Omar. But in the Persian 
