[272]

The Pers. partala is always used for a 'waist-belt' in India, but in Persia also for a turban.

[273]

Busbecq (1554) says: "... ingens ubique florum copia offerebatur, Narcissorum, Hyacinthorum, et eorum quos Turcae Tulipan vocant."—Epist. i. Elzevir ed. p. 47.

[274]

It must be kept in mind that though Rumphius (George Everard Rumpf) died in 1693, his great work was not printed till nearly fifty years afterwards (1741).

[275]

Foersch was a surgeon of the third class at Samarang in the year 1773.—Horsfield, in Bat. Trans. as quoted below.

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This distance is probably a clerical error. It is quite inconsistent with the other two assigned.