EARLY ARAB GEOGRAPHERS.
From Kandábíl to Mansúra eight days. From Kandábíl to Multán, by the desert, about ten days. Between Mansúra and Kámhal[1] eight days. From Kámhal to Kambáya four days. From Kambáya to the sea about two parasangs. From Kambáya to Súrabáya about four days, and Súrabáya is about half a parasang from the sea. Between Súrabáya and Sindán about five days. From Sindán to Saimúr five days. Between Saimúr and Sarandíb fifteen days. Between Multán and Basmand about two days. From Basmand to Al Euz three days. From Al Rúz to Annarí four days. From Annarí to Kallarí two days. From thence to Mansúra one day. From Debal to Tíz four days. From thence to Manjábarí two days. From Kálwí[2] [Kállarí] to Maldán [Multán?] about four days. Baband[3] lies between Mansúra and Kámhal at one day's journey from Mansúra.
There is a river in Sind called the Mihrán.[4] It is said that it springs from the summit of a mountain from which many affluents of the Jíhún rise.[5] The Mihrán passes by the borders of Samand[6] and Al Rúr (Alor) to the neighbourhood of Multán ; from thence to Mansúra, and onwards until it joins the sea to the east of Debal. Its water is very sweet. It is said that there are crocodiles in it as large as those of the Nile. It rises like as the Nile rises, and inundates the land, which on the subsidence of the water is sown in the manner we have described in the land of Egypt. The Sind Rúd is about three stages from Multán. Its water is very sweet, even before it joins the Mihrán. Makrán is mostly desert, and has very few rivers. Their waters flow into the Mihrán on both sides of Mansúra.
- ↑ [The text has Káhal, but there can be no doubt that Kámhal is meant.]
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in the text, which can only be rendered by guess. Ibn Haukal and Idrísí have “Bániya.”]
- ↑ [The Marásidu-l Ittilá quotes this with some variations in the names.]
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- ↑ [Kazwíní in quoting this passage calls the place “Samandúr.”]
