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circumference of 2000 miles, and vast numbers 

 of elephants. The India Minor, India Major, 

 and India Tertia of the mediaeval Latin travellers 

 are the Sind, Hind, and Zinj of the Arabs. Ibn 

 Batuta (a.d. 1330, 1331), the first Arab traveller 

 who wrote a realistic description of his voyage, 

 has accurately placed Kilwa, which he calls 

 ' Kulua,' in the e land of the Zunuj.' Finally, 

 we meet with it in El Xowayri, and in Abulfeda, 

 the ' Prince of Arab Geographers,' who both died 

 in the same year, a.d. 1331. 



The word Zanj (^;), corrupted to Zinj, 

 whence the plural ' Zunuj,' is evidently the Per- 

 sian Zang or Zangi (^£jj) 3 a black, altered by 

 the Arabs, who ignore the hard Aryan 'Gaf 5 (^f), 

 the 6 G ' in our s;ulf. In the same tongue bar 

 means land or region — not sea or sea-coast — and 

 the compounded term would signify Nigritia 

 or Blackland. In modern Persian Zangi still 

 means a negro, and D' Herbelot says of the 

 1 Zenghis ' that 6 they are properly those called 

 Zingari, 1 and, by some, Egyptians and Bohe- 



1 My learned and accomplished friend, Dr E. S. Charnoch 

 (The Peoples of Transylvania : London, Triibner, 1870, p. 2S), 

 agrees with D'Herbelot, and from Zangi derives the racial 

 gipsy names Czigany, It. Zingari, Var. Cingani, Zingara, Cingari, 

 Port. Ciganos, G. Zigeuner. But the Zangi were and are ne- 

 groes, Wasawahili, whereas the gypsies never were. 



