[488] The Van lake, at its nearest point, is scarcely twenty English miles from Bitlis.
[489] Khoi is nearly a hundred miles from the Van lake.
[490] This is the shortest and most direct route from Tocat to Persia and quite different from the one just mentioned.
[492] Casveen.
[493] Khafour el Ghouri, called Campson Gauri later on.
[494] We have an instance of this sort in our own annals, viz., the presents sent by the Dauphin to Henry V.
[495] Baiburt.
[496] These were the latest conquests made by Selim from Persia.
[497] Euxaghly, near Malatia, called Ciamassum by Knolles, who says it was situated near the confluence of the Melas (Kara Su) with the Euphrates.