For we are Khairreddin's troops."
(Khairreddin Pasha was Suleiman's renowned Admiral, known in Europe as Barbarossa.)
[101] In the text Bami may possibly be a slip of the pen and intended for "Brahmin."
[102] Banians, "Indian merchants," more especially from the Province of Gujarat, who from time immemorial have traded with the harbor-towns of Arabia.
[103] Rajput, a warlike race, probably descended from the ural-Altaic race.
[104] This can not be the town of that name in Bengal, as this lies more to the south and could not be reached from Ahmedabad in five days.
[105] Radhanpur, the capital of the district of that name in the Presidency of Bombay.
[106] More correctly Parkar or Nagar-Parkar, the name of a district and a place in the Presidency of Bombay.
[107] Muhre, "a stone," which, so says the legend, is found in the head of the serpent and the dragon, and possesses miraculous power. Many Dervishes carry one of these stones in their girdle to trade upon the superstition of the ignorant people.
[108] As a town, Wanga is unknown to me, unless it be intended for Wanna, in the district of Cathiawar in the Presidency of Bombay.