374 Ibn HuokuVs Account of Seestan. [No. 5. 



Dez Guz. — But for being declared on the banks of the river, I 

 should have read this word Durghosh which exists as a large place 

 some thirty or forty miles East of the river. Colonel Sanders in his 

 survey down the Helmund, 10 miles above Serwan, places the district 

 of Guz. Dez or Dezh, is Puhluwee for a fort. 



Zabul. — Most books have Kabul, but the word given is clearly the 

 one required, as the old name for the districts of Subswar and Furruh. 



Kooheen. — Distinctly so written in a copy of the Nozut ol Koloob, 

 as the birth place of the Suffar family. 



Suroor. — Now called Chugnusoor : Edward Conolly halted at the 

 fort ; and says, the definition given to him was, Khanuhesoor or the 

 house of gladness ; RoStum having at it celebrated his marriage. 



Tak. — Now exists ; was visited by E. Conolly. 



Khash. — The present fort ; as located. 



Churruh. — Was seen and determined by Colonel Sanders. 



Serwan. — The fort of the modern Serban or Serwan district ; as 

 placed. 



Zalkhan. — Is now one of the first canals taking off from the Hel- 

 mund, in the district of Gurumseer. 



Zurkan. — Unknown. 



Bashtur. — Is, I have no doubt, the correct reading — all our copies 

 differ. I can understand, as knowing the irrigation system that the 

 canal called Bastrood ran to this place. 



Road to Guznee. — The most unsatisfactory of all the identifications 

 are of this route ; few of them are complete or happy : and yet our 

 surveyors have been constantly up and down the road. Tukeen or 

 Tugeen is, I suspect, the chief who built or resided in the old city of 

 Kundahar, if the two places mentioned are to be considered one city. 

 Near the Turnuk are ruins of a place called Jukan, about 12 miles 

 higher up the road ; Shuhre-Sufa would better break the distance. 

 Homukee is the district of Kulate Gulzaee. It must be remembered, 

 that words much used and often quoted by Europeans, have but little 

 currency. I give this route entire as written in each of the four 

 copies ; a specimen of the dependence to be placed in manuscript. 



Keyun. — The ruins ot Keyunabad near Bum. 



The greatest indulgence is craved for these attempts ; nothing but 

 local knowledge will ever be sufficient to correct such vitiated manu- 

 script. If individuals from the countries would each undertake to cor- 

 rect the portion within his immediate knowledge, we might hope at 

 last, to obtain a correct version of the orginal. I anticipate that it 

 will ultimately be found, that the names of places have changed much 

 less than is supposed. 



