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Tlauai (Mehtahzai). In the Bo'rai valley, however, Wazia'gai and 

 Khankai seem to be general names for groups of villages and we have 

 two MuES and two Waha'es. In the wilder parts names become more 

 general and merely descriptive, everything in the neighbourhood, valley, 

 river, village and hills, all being known by the same name. Such are, 

 O'bushtkai, Khwa'ra, Chimja'jst, Kach, Baii'ktai in the Sho'h valley, 

 and in still wilder regions Nangait^na, To'pobaegh, Tki'eh Kuram, 

 TsAMAULANG and Ba'la Dha'ka. Towards the Beloch Border double 

 names, the Patlian and the Beloch are met with, as To'r Tsappau and 

 Ka'li' Chuppri, both of the same meaning, the Black Hill : and Ba'hait 

 Ktjnd (Pathan) = Batsti'wa'la' Kach (Beloch). 



Some names are corruptions and abbreviations ; such as Satad Sa'lo and 

 Sa'tad Attj probably, and perhaps Skan and Iskan for Alexander (Iskan- 

 dar) : Ajji' for Ha'ji' : Sama'lzat for Isma'ilza'i : Brahamzai for 

 Ibra'iiimzai : A'ltp and Alab for Halab (Aleppo): and i^erhaps Sopa's- 

 zAi for Isfaha'nzai. 



■ In places there seems to be a tendency to call villages after the names 

 of celebrated places, thus we have Di'lai, La'ho'r and Multat in the 

 Bo'rai valley. 



Before leaving this point I would remark that across the Beloch 

 Border in Ba'rkho'm (or Ba'rkha'n) a similar if not a greater confusion 

 of nomenclature exists. Thus the place called Litga'ri' Ba'rkha'n is also 

 called Bangala' : Hasni' Ko't = Ta'nkiii Shahb : Cha'he'st = Ba'btjl 

 Kha'n ka Ko't or Shahr : Na'ndha' = She'kh Ko't while all the 

 Na'har villages are sometimes grouped as Na'har Ko't, and finally the 

 valley itself is variously called Ba'rkho'm, Ba'bkha'n, Luga'ri Baekhan, 

 LtiNDi'A'if and Kaho. 



Having now explained as far as possible the reasons why the nomen- 

 clature of travellers* along the same route in ALfghanistan should differ 

 so greatly, and in order to clear the way for future students of this parti- 

 cular route, I close this paper by a comparison and identification of names 

 found in the journals of other travellers with those to be found in my maps. 

 Included among these are the nomenclature in Capt Holdich's plane-table 

 sketch-map of the Route and in the Quarter Master General's Depart- 

 mental sketch-map, and also the names given in Major Waterhouse's paper 

 in this Journal. t 



* Capt. Heaviside remarks on the difficulty of obtaining Afghan names, in Major 

 Waterhouse's report, pp. 53. J. A. S. B. Vol. XVIII, pt. II, 1879. 



t The works referred to in the comparison are Notes on the Survey Operations 

 in Afghanistan in connection with the Campaign of 1878-9 by Major Waterhouse, J. A. 

 S. B. 1879. Mackenzie's Routes in Asia, Sec. II, Afghanistan. Iilacgregor's Gazetteer, 

 Afghanistan, Leech's Route : Dera Ghazi Khan to Kandahar. Lumsden's Mission 

 to Kandahar. A more detailed identification of the names along the route ■will be 

 found in the appendix to my paper in the J. R. G. S. above referred to. 



