Stadt Ukek, etc., Petersb. 1835;
Gold. Horde; Ibn Bat. II. 414; Abulfeda, in Buesching, V. 365; Ann.
Minorum, sub anno 1400; Petis de la Croix, II. 355, 383, 388;
Hakluyt, ed. 1809, I. 375 and 472; Lepechin, Tagebuch der Reise, etc.,
I. 235-237; Rockhill, Rubruck, 120-121, note 2.)
NOTE 5. - The great River Tigeri or Tigris is the Volga, as Pauthier
rightly shows. It receives the same name from the Monk Pascal of Vittoria
in 1338. (Cathay, p. 234.) Perhaps this arose out of some legend that
the Tigris was a reappearance of the same river. The ecclesiastical
historian, Nicephorus Callistus, appears to imply that the Tigris coming
from Paradise flows under the Caspian to emerge in Kurdistan. (See IX.
19.)
The "17 days" applies to one stretch of desert. The whole journey from
Ukek Bokhara would take some 60 days at least. Ibn Batuta is 58 days from
Sarai to Bokhara, and of the last section he says, "we entered the desert
which extends between Khwarizm and Bokhara, and which has an extent of 18
days' journey." (III. 19.)
CHAPTER III.
HOW THE TWO BROTHERS, AFTER CROSSING A DESERT, CAME TO THE CITY OF BOCARA,
AND FELL IN WITH CERTAIN ENVOYS THERE.
After they had passed the desert, they arrived at a very great and noble
city called BOCARA, the territory of which belonged to a king whose name
was Barac, and is also called Bocara.
