I Myself Crossed A Part Of The Bahabad Desert Where We Did Not Once
Follow Any Of The Roads Used By Caravans, And I Found This Country By No
Means One Of The Worst In Eastern Persia.
"In the above exposition I believe that I have demonstrated that it is
extremely probable that Marco Polo travelled, not through Naibend to Tun,
but through Bahabad to Tebbes, and thence to Tun and Kain.
His own
description accords in all respects with the present aspect and
peculiarities of the desert route in question. And the time of eight days
he assigns to the journey between Kuh-benan and Tonocain renders it also
probable that he came to the last-named province at Tebbes, even if he
travelled somewhat faster than caravans are wont to do at the present day.
It signifies little that he does not mention the name Tebbes; he gives
only the name of the province, adding that it contains a great many towns
and villages. One of these was Tebbes."
XXII., p. 126.
TUTIA.
"It seems that the word is 'the Arabicized word dudha, being Persian for
"smokes."' There can be little doubt that we have direct confirmation of
this in the Chinese words t'ou-t'ieh (still, I think, in use) and
t'ou-shik, meaning 'tou-iron' and 't'ou-ore.' The character T'ou
[Chinese] does not appear in the old dictionaries; its first appearance is
in the History of the Toba (Tungusic) Dynasty of North China. This History
first mentions the name 'Persia' in A.D. 455 and the existence there of
this metal, which, a little later on, is also said to come from a State in
the Cashmeer region.
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