PREFACE. 
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(3) Certain sheets of translation in Mr. Shaw's handwriting, 
numbered pages 1 to 10, 79 to 107, and 13 odd pages 
not numbered. 
(4) Five separate notes, in Mr. Shaw's handwriting, on various 
subjects connected with the history and headed respec¬ 
tively Appendix A, B, C, D and E. 1 
(5) A document of 41 foolscap pages very widely and hurriedly 
written by Mr. Shaw, without any heading, but which 
is found, on comparison, to be a precis or epitome, of the 
whole book. 
This last is the only complete document and is the one printed 
below. 
But though we have here parts of an original Turk! manuscript, 
of a printed Turk! text and translation, and a complete English epi¬ 
tome, there is evidence to show that this original manuscript is not 
the only one that Mr. Shaw based his work upon. The 73 sheets of 
the manuscript which have come into my hands contain many altera¬ 
tions and additions in Turin, in what I believe to be Mr. Shaw's hand¬ 
writing, and many passages—some long, some short—marked for the 
printer to omit. In certain marginal jottings, moreover, mention is 
made of variations in “ the other book," while in the fragments of 
the translation and in the epitome passages occur which are not con¬ 
tained in the original manuscript. Hence it is to be inferred that 
Mr. Shaw had, besides this work of Muhammad Sadiq, another which 
told the same story but in a different way; that he collated the two 
for his printed text, and translated and summarised from the latter. 
What this “ other book " may have been I can find no trace of. It 
frequently happens that different copies of the works of Asiatic authors 
are found to vary to some extent—either copyists or editors having 
altered the original manuscript. But, as far as I am aware, the varia¬ 
tions in these cases are not usually considerable. In this instance, 
however, the texts differ rather widely in places, and on points of some 
importance. I am inclined to think, therefore, that the “ other book" 
was not merely another copy of Muhammad Sadiq's manuscript, but 
the work of some quite different hand which recorded the history of 
the same times and events, though in entirely different language. It 
would be useless to speculate as to what particular book it may have 
1 Appendix E is not printed with the other four, as it consists ouly of an extract from 
a published book, on a subject sufficiently explained in the Introduction. 
