![]() ![]() 545.-"The Choirelaphus ('Hog-stag') I have both seen and eaten."- Cosmas Indicopleustes, in Cathay, &c., p. 70.-"The wild bores of India have two bowing fangs or tuskes of a cubit length, growing out of their mouth, and as many out of their foreheads like calves hornes."- Pliny, viii. of Babelmandel, in the quotation from Ovington. Briggs's Cities of Gujaráshtra we find " Bawa Gori Akik, a veined kind."-p. 294.ġ849.-Among ten kinds of carnelians specified in H. ![]() of the titular saint of the country, Baba Ghor, to whom a devotion is paid more as a deity than as a saint."- Copland, in Tr. ![]() 615 ( Blochmann).ġ818.-"On the summit stands the tomb. 463.ġ590.-"By the command of his Majesty grain weights of bābāghūrī were made, which were used in weighing."- Āīn, i. They make beads with it, and other things which they wear about them."- Barbosa, 67.ġ554.-"In this country (Guzerat) is a profusion of Bābāghūrī and carnelians but the best of these last are those coming from Yaman."- Sidi 'Ali Kapudān, in J.A.S.B. 1516.-"They also find in this town (Limadura in Guzerat) much chalcedony, which they call babagore. ![]()
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