812 Translation of the Mohit. [Oct. 



the point of sunset and south is called West, that between the point 

 of east and west is called North, and on the opposite side South. 

 Consider all this when you undertake a voyage ; when, please God, he 

 will make every thing easy to you and your voyage shall be attended 

 with much profit. 



Be it known to you that the most dangerous Tufdns or storms in 

 India are five. The first begins in India on the 310th day of the 

 Yazdajirdian year, — 1 75th Jul. (1st Sept.) which is called the rein of the 

 elephant. The second is that of Ohaimei 13 on the shore of Ahkdf from 

 the district of Madaraka 1 ** reaching to Sheher 1 *, and in some parts to 

 Aden; it sets in on the 315th day of the Yazd. = 215 Jul. year (6th 

 Sept.) ; in some years earlier, in some years later. 



The third is called that of the forty (Erbaain), in the sea of Hormuz, 

 it begins on the 50th day of the Yazdajird. year = the 280 Julal. 

 (15th Dec.) 



The Fourth that of the girls (BendtJ, known by the name of winterly 

 wind 16 ; it sets in from the very place of the Bindt-ul-naash 11 (the three 

 stars of Ursa), and extends nearly to Aden over the whole Arabian 

 continent ; in some years it does not reach Aden : it begins on the 50th 

 day of the Yazdj. year, (15th Dec.) and ends on the new year's day, 

 that is to say, from the 280th to 330th day of the Julalian year, 

 (5th Feb.) 



The fifth is that of the ninety (Tisain), in the Indian seas; it sets 

 some years earlier and some years later in ; this Tufdn extends 

 also to the continent of Ahkdf where it comes from Barr mo 19 , that 

 is to say, from the shore, the people of Mahr 19 call it ShaWf* , and the 

 sea is under the wind ; it lasts till to the 190th day of the Yazdajirdian 

 year=the 55th of the Julalian, (4th May :) this is the strongest of all, 

 and extends, if powerful, over the whole world. 



Finished, by the providence of God the omniscient, in the town of 

 Ahmeddbdd the capital of Gujurdt, in the last days of Moharram 962 

 (end of December 1554) of the Hejra. Written in the last days of 

 Rabi-ul-awal 966, (end of December 1558,) in the town of Amid. 



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* Ras Madraka is, I find by Horsburgh, Cape Isolette, which I before sup- 

 posed to be Ghaibba-i-tin : the latter may be the rocky bay near it. — Ed. 



t Mahrastra and Chola of the west coast, or more probably Marawa and Chola 

 which with Karnata were the most influential states of the peninsula until the 16th 

 century, when they succumbed to the Vijyanayar princes. — Ed. 



