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APPENDIX, No. II. 
No. II. 
THE Reader will find, among the passages in the preceding ar 
ticle of this Appendix, a short account of the Boloujes, mentioned 
in pages 140 and 141 of the work. It is necessary here to point 
out an incongruity between Ebn Haukal’s description of this 
people, and that of other writers. This, however, may be recon 
ciled, if we suppose (what indeed occurs in every page of the ori 
ginal MS.) an error in the writing. For jol (they do not 
infest the roads), we must read  ol “they do infest the 
roads,” and alter the remainder of the sentence accordingly. 1 
was induced to adopt this reading, from the concurrent testi 
monies of various Eastern Authors, who all bear witness against 
the character of the Bolouches. 
It will be sufficient to quote two dictionaries; first, the Ferhung 
Borhan Kattea , article 
— which thus 
ascertains the true pronunciation of the name : 
san  se esh 
E 
* Bolouche—with the vowel accent damma on the first and