[115] Cf. T. Mommsen, 1882, pp. 88, 166.
[116] Jaqut, 1866, i. p. 113; cf. also Mehren, 1857, p. 171.
[117] Ibn Fadhlân’s mission as ambassador from the Caliph al-Muktadir billâh of Bagdad to Bulgar took place, according to his own statements, reproduced by Jaqût (ob. 1229), in the years 921 and 922 A.D. Ibn Fadhlân, like Jaqût, was a Greek by birth.
[118] Jaqut, 1866, iv. p. 944; i. p. 113.
[119] This agrees with reality. Along the Volga one can reach the land of the Vesses on Lake Byelo-ozero.
[120] Al-Qazwînî, 1848, ii. p. 416.
[121] Ibn Batûta, Voyages, etc., par Defrémery et Sanguinetti, ii. pp. 399, ff.
[122] This is doubtless an expression for a conveyance of some kind, which must here have been a sledge.
[123] Cf. Frähn, 1823, pp. 230, ff.
[124] Cf. Peschel, 2nd ed., 1877, p. 107. There has also been found a metal mirror with an Arabic inscription of the tenth or eleventh century at Samarovo in the land of the Ostyaks, where the Irtysh and the Ob join.