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Gracilis ad Aornon. 



[No. 4. 



According to 1st 

 and 2nd route. 



Fords the Punjgow 

 ra by a ford difficult 

 and dangerous in the 

 spring from the rapidi 

 ty of current and size 

 of the boulders. 



Country of the 

 Gowr tribes still so 

 called. 



Conquest of western 

 Sohaut where the As- 

 sarzyes or sons of Assa 

 (Khan) Assacanus, are 

 still the most impor- 

 tant branch of Eusof- 

 zye of western Sohaut 



Siege of Massagorh 

 which seems to exist 

 as a ruin in the Seh 

 Boochnia valley as de- 

 scribed by Curtius. 



Route by Arrian. 



Transit of the moun 

 tain. 



City Arigaios* or 

 Arigaion burnt by the 

 inhabitants. 



Battle on the moun 

 tain top,t capture of 

 40,000 men and 

 2,30,000 oxen. 



Passage of the Gou- 

 raios by a ford difficult 

 and dangerous from 

 the strength of the 

 current, and the round 

 slippery boulders at 

 bottom. 



Country of the Gou- 

 raioi. 



Country of the As- 

 sakenoi or subjects oi 

 Assakanos. 



By 3rd route. 



on the spurs which 

 abound upon the So- 

 haut Sinde Biver. 



Erom one tributary 

 valley to another. 



Siege of Masaga 

 chief town of Assa- 

 kanos, X described by 

 Curtius to be girt 

 on three sides with 

 chasms. 



Country of the 

 Gowr tribe to this day. 



The most powerful 

 tribe on the west of the 

 Sohaut Sinde, are still 

 the Assazyes, sons of 

 Assa and the Asha- 

 khail or tribe of Asha 

 dwelling together in 

 the valley contiguous 

 with that occupied by 

 Massagorh. 



Siege of Massagorh 

 the chief fortified town 

 western Sohaut the 

 ruins of which still 

 exist as described by 

 Ourtius in the valley 



* This name may be Aragaou or Hurrigaon. or Oorigaon. 



f This denotes a most populous and rich tract, and can refer, I think, only to 

 eastern Sohaut. 



X Assakanos was a chief or king. Curtius styles his mother Queen. It is proba- 

 ble that he was the dominant chief of Western Sohaut, and, as such, Lord paramount 

 of Massagorh, although it is uot in the valley at present occupied by the Assazye or 

 sons of Assa. 



