50 Translation of Ibn HuokuVs Account of Scind. [No. I. 



me to offer a fair guess at some few of the towns and districts men- 

 tioned. No doubt many are questionable ; but the errors may be 

 cleared up by the researches now making in the very district. I shall 

 be amply repaid if this sketch draws attention to the subject, and 

 leads some antiquarian of young Egypt, to identify with certainty the 

 locality of the once celebrated Munsooruh. When my share of the 

 undertaking was complete, Dr. Sprenger obtained for me a copy of the 

 fragment published by Gildemeister, — only, in time to prove the 

 lacunae in the works I had translated. 



Any attempt to combine the two originals would only have resulted 

 in a new compilation — two or three passages alone were improved by 

 use of the last work. 



Possessing no knowledge of Arabic, more than sufficient with the 

 help of Dictionary, Grammar and Moonshee, to reach the sense of a 

 common passage ; I leave the weight of the original entirely on my 

 friend Dr. Sprenger than whom I know none better able to support 

 the burden. He will also give the history of his own Manuscript, 

 which he now questions being the original text of Ibn Huokul ; but 

 as such it was mentioned to me. In the usual Asiatic mode I add — 

 which is truth, God knows. 



The country of Scind with the adjoining districts I have placed in 

 one Map, — viz. Scind, a portion of India, of Mukran, of Zoran and 

 of the Buroohee country. To the east of all these, lies the Persian 

 Gulf ; to the west Kerman, the deserted and the cultivated parts of 

 Segistan ; to the north India ; and to the south, the deserts between 

 Mukran and Khozdar ; beyond these is the Gulf of Persia ; which 

 also encloses this country to the east. On the south beyond the de- 

 sert, lies the great ocean, which extends from Seemood eastward unto 

 Teez of Mukran ; it winds round the desert and then inclines towards 

 Kerman and Persia. 



Of the cities belonging to this division are found the following : — of 

 Mukran — Teez ; Punjgoor ; Duzuk ; Rasuk, the town of the Sepa- 

 ratists : Bund ; Kusurkund ; Esfukuh ; Kulpooruh ; Mushkan ; Pu- 

 sunee ; Gwadul. 



Of Zooran; Bunjaruh ; Shoorawukh ; Khozdar. 



Of the Buroohee district ; Gundava. 



Of Scind; Munsooruh, called Mameewan in Scindee; Deebul ; 



