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8. Asiatick Researches, XIV (1822), p. 454, Art.: On the Ancient Geography of India. 
The Portuguese maps exhibit only four rivers 011 that coast [of Arakan] . that' of Chatgdnh ; 
the Chocona, to be pronounced Khocorid ; the river and gulf of Ramea, and the river of Ardcan. 
The gulf of Ramu, now called the bay of Cruzcool , has a considerable river, that falls into it, 
called Mushcolley, after which is denominated the opposite island, but called by our seafaring 
Mascal, this appellation being more familiar to them; but in the Portuguese maps, there is no 
name affixed to it. The name of the island to the north of this, is Cuccura-dwipa , but in the 
spoken dialects Cuccur-divd or Cuccur-dia , or the island of dogs. In these dialects a dog is 
generally called Cut' a ; and from Cut' a-dwip I suspect they have made Cuttub-ded . There is a 
place in it called Cukera-hanserd , which, the pilots say, signifies Dog- swimming Creek. It is called 
Quoquor-diva by Eindschot in his map of India, and Cuccuri-divd by F. Monskrrat. 1 
q. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, XX (1852), p. 242, Art. : Essav on the Ancient Geography of India. 
D’Herbelot says, that Deibul (or Tatha) [in the Delta of the Indus] was besieged in 
vain by Soliman, the second king of Persia ; but I find no such king in the history of that 
country. 
In the latter end of the reign of Akbar, it was besieged by his general Khan-Khanan with 
a numerous army ; the siege lasted six months; but after a most obstinate resistance it was 
taken. This town could not have been the present Thattha, which could not have held out 90 
long : but it was Tatha, or Debiel, which was so strong, on account of its insular situation It was 
called Shah-bandar, or the royal emporium, in honour of Akbar. In some old Portuguese maps, 
it is simply called Bandel for Bandar, and in Father Monserrat’s map of India it is placed, 
exactly half way, between the mouth of the western branch of the Indus and Thattha . 2 The 
denomination Shah-bandar seems to be unknown to Hindu pilgrims, and is used only by Mus- 
sulmans who never use that of Nagar-Tatha, except when applied to Thattha. 
10. Ibid., pp. 247-248. 
In the bay [opposite the Delta of the Indus] there are several small rocky islets, three of 
which are particularly noticed by pilgrims ; the largest is called Rdma-Zaroca, or the observatory, 
or watching place of Rama-Chandra, who erected a Zaroca upon it. J arocha, or rather Dzeroc'ha , 
in Sanskrit Jalaca, is a latticed window, for the sake of observing, what is going on abroad, also 
a peeping hole. By the Zaroc'has of Rama, Lacshma’na, etc. , the pilgrims understand certain 
mounds, or raised platforms, either natural or artificial, for the above purpose, and in this sense 
it is synonymous with Seirungah in Persian. According to Father Monserrat, the largest of these 
islets was called Camelo by the Portuguese; and the three principal ones Monaras, or the turrets, 
from the Arabic Minara, and opposite to them is a small branch of the Indus. He does not 
say positively, that he had been there himself; but I believe that this was the case. The 
several passages relating to this place stand thus, “ Canthi Naustathmus sorgi douro [sir] das 
Monaras, statio pro turribus dicitur juxta Monaras. . .. Canthi Naustathmus stationi respondet 
scopulorum, qui pro Indi hostio eminent, et vulgo dicitur Monaras, h. ( hoc est) turres vel pvra- 
mides ab Arabibus accepto vocabulo. 
‘‘Extra ostium Indi insulae Chryse, et Argyre necubi apparent. Eminet tamen, nostra 
1 “ In an autograph MS. 01 the author, in my possession. The Padre wrote about the year 1590, in the prisons of 
Sknna in Arabia .” [F. W.] — There is no parallel passage in Mong. Legat. Comm. 
4 It is similarly marked in the map of Mong. Legat. Comm. 
