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ssss1 “Which I suspect to be Conengue or Khounouk, a port of Persia, on the Persian Gulf,” (French Editor). Speaking without having seen the letter, I should rather suspect it to be the island and roadstead of Karrack, called by the Arabs Khârej, but also locally, as appears by the Government charts, Khárg. (My friend Mr. Badger thinks it may be El-Kât, an ancient port still much frequented, fifty miles south-west of the mouth of the Euphrates.) I find from M. D’Avezac in Rec. de Voyages, (iv. 421), that this letter is published in Quétif & Echard, Scriptoris Ordinis Dom., i. p. 549, and that the second letter is given by Wadding, Annales Minorum, vi. 359.

ssss1 Tauris, Tabriz; Tongan, which the French editor calls “Djagorgan” (?), is probably Daumghan in Persia, south of Astrabad, mentioned by Marco Polo (ii. 17), with an allusion to the Christians there; and Marogo is Maragha in the plain east of Lake Urumia, formerly the capital of the Tartar Hulaku.

ssss1 Which shows that the places indicated by Jordanus were in India. Paroco is of course Baroch, and Columbum, Coulam or Quilon. Respecting the identity of this last we shall, however, have to speak more fully. Supera, the French editor states, after D’Anville, to be “the port now called Sefer, the Sefara el Hind of the Arabs.” It is doubtless the Supara of Ptolomy, which he places on the north of the first great river south of the Namadus or Nerbudda. Masudi also says that Sefara was four days’ journey from Cambay. These indications fix Supera on the Tapti, over against Surat, and probably as the ancient representative of that port. (See Reinaud’s Mém. sur la Géog. de l’Inde, and Vincent’s Periplus of the Erythræan Sea, p. 385.)