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APPENDIX IV. 
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The Lord’s Prayer in the Bolor (Kafir), language ( Terentief), and 
remarks on the Bolor Country . 
The following is a translation, as given in “ Russia and England in 
Central Asia,” (M.A. Terentief), of the Lord’s Prayer into the “ language 
of the Bolors or Siah-posh Kafirs.” If does not agree with the Waiguli 
or Bashgali dialect as recorded in any book which I have seen. * There 
are no diacritical marks. 
Babo vetu osezulvini. Malipaive egobunkvele egamalako. TJbukum- 
kani bako mabuphike. Intando yako mayenzibe. Emkhlya beni , nyeugo- 
kuba isenziva egulvini. Sipe namglya nye ukutiya kvetu kvemikhla igemu 
khla. Usikcolele izono zetu , nyengokuba nati siksolela abo basonaio tina 
Unga singekisi ekulingveli zusisindise enkokhlakalveni, ngoknba bubobako 
ubukumkhani namandkhla nobungkvalisa , kudekube igunapakade. Amene 
Bolor has been called the will o’ the wisp of geography and the symbol 
of controversy. 
The following is a list, etc., of some of the many works which treat of it 
Pauthier. —Le livre de Marco Polo, 1307 A.D. Paris, 1865.' 
Shaw, R. B.— A Prince ( Mirza Haidar ; Tarikh-i-Rashtdi, 1543 
A.D.) of Kashgar, on the Geography of Eastern Turkestan. R.G.S., 
Volume XLVI, of 1876. —Bolor is mentioned as co-terminous with the 
Yarkand Province of Raskam and Taghdumbash. It included the 
present district of Kafiristan. According to Mirza Haidar the country of 
Bolor corresponded with Dardistan. 
Klaproth. —Magasin Asiatique, 1825. Tome ler. —Bolor is south¬ 
east of Yarkiang and east of Badakhshan, and Baltistan is south of it. 
Vigne, G. E.— Travels in Kashmir, Ladoik, etc., 1842. 
Humboldt. —Asie Centrale, Vol. 11, p. 365,—Systeme des Montagues du 
Bolor . 
* since Che above was written, a copy of toe translation into the so-called Bolor 
or Siahposh language has been kindly submitted by Dr. Grierson, C.I E., to Pro¬ 
fessor E. Kuhn, of Munich, for examination He has pronounced an opinion that" 
it seems to be an incorrect copy of the version of the Lord’s Prayer in the language 
of the Ama*|)osa Kaffirs of South Africa (see, for instance, Friedrich Muller’s Grun- 
driss der Sprachwissenschaft, I Band, I L Abtheilung (Pt. II) pp . 261 26 9 ) 
According to Muller’s transcription( the sign) || represents the so-called 
elick ” of the South African languages. 
