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Art. XX.—Notes on Marco Polo's Itinerary in Southern Persia (Chapters XVI. to XXI., Col. Yule's Translation)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

A. Houtum-Schindler
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Chapter XVI.—Marco Polo travelled from Yazd to Kermán viâ. Báfk. His description of the road, seven days over great plains, harbour at three places only, is perfectly exact. The fine woods, producing dates, are at Báfk itself. (The place is generally called Báft.) Partridges and quails still abound; wild asses I saw several on the western road, and I was told that there were a great many on the Báfk road. Travellers and caravans now always go by the eastern road viâ Anár and Bahrámábád. Before the Sefavíehs (i.e. before A.D. 1500) the Anár road was hardly, if ever, used; travellers always took the Báfk road. The country from Yazd to Anár, 97 miles, seems to have been totally uninhabited before the Sefavíehs. Anár, as late as A.D. 1340, is mentioned as the frontier place of Kermán to the north, on the confines of the Yazd desert. When Sháh 'Abbás had caravanserais built at three places between Yazd and Anár (Zein ud-dín, Kermánsháhán, and Shamsh), the eastern road began to be neglected.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1881 , pp. 490 - 497
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1881

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page 490 note 1 In different histories, when speaking of Mubáriz ud dín's flight from Kermán on the approach of Qutb ud dín Níkrúz, A.D. 741.

page 490 note 2 This in all histories I saw written Kúbenán, not Kúhbenán; the pronunciation to-day is Kóbenán and Kóbenún.

page 490 note 3 See History of Kermán, completed A.D. 584 (A.D. 1188).

page 492 note 1 See Ferhang i Anjuman Ará, sub voce Kuwáshír.

page 492 note 2 Journ. R.A.S. N.S. Vol. VII. 1875, p. 244.Google Scholar