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memoria , deserta qusedam insula et perexigua, quam vocant Cameli , ex adverso hostii amnis : sed 
ea saxum ingens, exors auri argentique.” Here the words nostra memoria are, in my opinion, 
to be rendered, I recollect, etc., and imply, that he had been there. 1 The original MS. is in my 
possession. 
The bay was called Rio de Pilotes, or the Pilot river by the Portuguese, who had always 
some of them stationed there, in order to conduct their ship over the bars of the Indus, and 
their ships remained there at anchor, waiting for a proper opportunity, and it is called for that 
reason N austathmus by Ptolemy. This place is styled the harbour of Hermes by Hayton the 
Armenian, who mistakes [ 248 ] Rama for Hermes, an ancient sage. It is designated also by 
the appellation of Ram, in the treaties of peice concluded between Nadir Shah, and the 
emperor of India; and by that of Ramgar, Coydr, or Couhbar in the Ayin-Acberi. Our pilgrims, 
having visited in a boat the Zeroed of Ram, cross over to the other side of the bay, and after a 
march of eight or nine cos, about 15 or 17 miles, they arrive on the banks of the river Hdb, 
which they cross, dress their food, and sleep there. There is about one. foot of water in it, 
during the dry season ; its bed is broad, and it is a pretty large river during the rains. Its bed 
is full of large rounded stones called Gallets by Buff on. Its current is rapid, and makes a con- 
siderable noise among the stones. It was called Ab-Indos by the Portuguese, and in some maps 
Obandos , or the Indian Hdb ; and by Father Monserrat Ab Indorum rivus in Batin. 2 
11. Ibid., p. 266. 
From the longitude, and latitude assigned to Cdraichi [Karachi], and the three next mouths 
of the Indus by Father Monserrat, 3 * * their respective distances are as follows: — 
Canthi — naustathmus stationi, respondet Scopulorum qui pro Indi ostio eminet. This he calls 
also in Portuguese Sorgidouro das monaras, and from it to the mouth of Sagapa called Barra d’ 
Ormuz , he reckons four nautical miles and a half : thence to that called Sinthus or Barra do 
Guzarate nine miles: to the Aureum ostium , or Barra do Genial a little more than eighteen miles. 
Gemal is probably the name of the Musulman saint, entombed on the eastern shore of the bay 
of Rishal. 
12. Ibid., p. 269. 
Father Monserrat says, that a small island, with other rocks, rises very high just before the 
mouth of the Indus, meaning a branch of it. It is called Camelo,* and is a large rock, and there 
the river runs directly east and west. Those rocks, says he, from their altitude are called 
Towers , and Monaras (for Minars) by the Arabs ; in whose language Monara (Minara) signifies a 
tower, or pyramid. 6 This station, for the shipping, is called by the Portuguese Rio dos Pilotos. 
On one of these rocky islands, Alexander erected altars to Tethys, and the Ocean, according to 
Diodorus the Sicilian. 
1 Monserrate’s map in Mong. Legat. Comm, notices the island Camelus, ‘ Camelus insula.’ — There is nothing to 
prove that M. visited the Delta of the Indus or other parts of India marked on his map, e.g. Bengal. In the list of 
longitudes and latitudes in Mong. Legat. Comm he notices only those places through which he passed. Now, Bengal 
and the Delta of the Indus are omitted there Since M. intended his Bk. II to be a treatise of geography for the whole 
of India, it is clear that he used other materials than his own. — “ Nostra memoria" may mean “to our own 
day.” 
2 In the map of Mong. Legat. Comm, we have Ab Indi. 
■ Karachi is not mentioned in Mong. Legat. C mm., nor is there any parallel passage to what follows. 
* Camelo appears also as a river in the old Portuguese maps. Cf. F. Wii,ford, ibid., p. 258. 
& No parallel passage in our MS. 
