APPENDIX B. 
701 
13. Ibid., p. 271. 
But let us return to Nearchus, whom we left at Coreestes, or Caraichi, called also Carcede 
by the Portuguese formerly. There he had been obliged to cut through the bar, at the mouth 
of the river, during the tide. .. . From this place they reached Crocala, after a course of 150 
stadia, or nine miles; but 20 Roman, or 18J British miles, according to Pliny. It was a sandy 
island which, I suppose, was at the mouth of the river Hab ; and of which I took notice before. 
Father Monserrat, in his MS. map, says, that there was a bay at its mouth, and writes opposite 
to it in Spanish, Enseada dos Ab-indos capar sellada, the last two words of which I do not 
understand. 1 2 Crocala is probably derived from Colcala, or Corcala in the spoken dialects, or 
the river of noises. This river Hab is the Hyphasis of Philostratus, who says, that it runs 
through a narrow bed, full of stones, and falls into the sea with a dreadful noise. This account 
is greatly exaggerated, as may be supposed. This Hab is also the river Arabus, or Arbis of Q. 
Curtius, who says, that Alexander crossed it on the fifth day from Pathala; four days after 
which he crossed the real Hab : but the passage from that author is certainly obscure. 
14. Ibid., p. 473. 
The Arbis or Arabis is called Carbis by ASthicus: and to this day it is denominated Hab and 
Cab. It is the Cophes of Pliny, as will appear hereafter. El Edrisi mentions the country of 
Araba, and Father Monserrat says, that the river was called in his time Arba, and also Hab] 
for he takes particular notice of the Indian A b, or Hab. 1 
15. Ibid., XX (1852), pp. 480-481. 
The Geography of this country [W. of the Delta of the Indus] i so little known, that we 
cannot proceed, but with little diffidence. The old maps of the Portuguese disagree ; and trans- 
positions are constantly to be met with. This seems to be a fatality, attending all surveys of 
that coast, not even excepting the most recent ones, from the Gulf of Cutch toward the west. 
The best map, in my opinion, is that of Joao Texeira, [ 481 ] Geographer to the King of 
Portugal; which was published in the year 1649; and is to be found in Melch. Thevenot’s 
collection of travels. It is unfortunately upon a small scale, and of course not sufficiently ex- 
plicit. The river Caorica is the western branch of the Hab, more accurately delineated and 
placed in the map of these countries, inserted in Eindschot’s travels. The next river is the 
Camelo , or Haur : then comes a river without name to the east of the Cape Arubah, which 
really exists according to our modern surveys. This cape is styled there, the point of islands, 
and the bay to the west of it, the harbour of islands, with a river at the bottom of it. Between 
this and Cape Guadel, our author has placed three rivers, Palamate, or Palamen, Calamete or 
Calamen , and near Cape Guadel, the river of Noutagues, from a tribe of that name, called 
Naytagues by Manuel de Faria, and Noytagues or Noytag by Father Monserrat: and this river 
by both, is placed to the N.-E. of Cape Guadel, not very far from it, and seemingly a little to 
the eastward of the eastern bay.* I suspect a transposition with regard to the rivers Calamen 
and Palamen : 3 we have ascertained the situation of the river of the Noytagues ; and there is no 
1 No parallel passage in our MS. 
2 No parallel passage in our MS. 
3 For the change of K to P which might make Palamen equal to Calamen, Cf. Indian Antiquary, 1893, PP- 1 9 326. 
We ask with much diffidence whether this Calamen could be the long lost Calamina of the Martyrologies where St. 
Thomas the Apostle was martyred. 
