Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 
Je Ge ee JT es op a por ee Fes ie 
Fe EN AI ue Jos opé 
Pa nd pale eo fée ant do ape du 
Je poil EN See lovue EL ose 
ci pole oi à ini iQ ol jdousé s 
Ole sh à 5 JS Je lee À] ul 
ce SOIT eg EU es Jo pe à JS 
x ds LU cel, Ja) tee 
del; JU ee oui Jef pre EU 
* NE Ab (bd, 
Mnipe nb Le me ie pe ne 
sui Lai, st Juill ul Le Cie) e Les 
aol, a) ai y lozles lon sus Q-lall 
pére piles ue des JB pl, à il) 
36 The statement of the sources of revenue here ins 
661 
From him who wounded another he took a 
bull. From him who stole another’s property, 
also a bull. — Farther in the year of the estab- 
lishment of a new king, after the death of 
the old one, from every village there were 
taken five foxes, one of which must have 
been black and the other four red, and five 
rams. In the year of the death of their former 
king from every village they took for the 
expense of his funeral a horse or a mare, 
And from every village and town they took 
a cow and two rams for the wedding entertain- 
ment of every one of the king's family. — 
These are the principal sources of the revenue to 
the enumeration of which I confine myself. — 
To this sovereign all the inhabitants of Daghis- 
tân whether high or low, submit themselves, 
cither of their own good will or by force *$. 
But after this know, that it has been 
handed down to us in succession (i. e. in 
authentic traditions) that from the descen- 
dants of the two uncles of our Prophet, namely 
the Prince of the Martyrs, Hamzeh and Ami- 
rul-muminin Æbbas°? a number of men, two 
hundred years after the flight of the Holy Pro- 
phet, set off and left the blessed Mekkeh and 
Medineh and from Shdm (Syria), at the head 
erted, by the author, seems to have been derived from 
the calculation of what every prince of Daghistan received gnd does receive now from his dominions; espe- 
cially the sovereïigh of Awar who yet in our author’s time was one of the most opulent Princes of the country. 
Hereafter he gives us another interesting account of the principal revenues that the Shamkhals received from 
all Daghistan. See this extract note 115, 
97 The first of these, namely Hamzeh, having fall 
en in ihe second war Badr called «s aal) 09, 
bears the title of the Prince of the Martyrs loi) Jus ; the second , i. e. Abbas who lived 21 years after 
his « koly-nephew » is sometimes distinguished by the e 
liar to the Khalifs alone. ‘ 
Mém. des sav. étrang. T. V1, 
pithet of Amirul-muminin, which was however, pecu- 
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