Note 1 — CHAP. II
Reading edition
: It was first published by RENAUDOT in 1718, and from the unique MS., now in the Bibliothèque impériale of Paris, and again by REINAUD in 1845, with a valuable discourse prefixed on the nature and extent of the Indian trade prior to the tenth century.—Relation des Voyages faits par les Arabes et les Persans dans l'Inde et Chine dans le IX'e Siècle, &c. 2 vols. 18mo. Paris, 1845.