Note 24 — PREFACE.

“Which I suspect to be Conengue or Khounouk, a port of Persia, on the Persian Gulf,” (French Editor). Speaking without having seen the letter, I should rather suspect it to be the island and roadstead of Karrack, called by the Arabs Khârej, but also locally, as appears by the Government charts, Khárg. (My friend Mr. Badger thinks it may be El-Kât, an ancient port still much frequented, fifty miles south-west of the mouth of the Euphrates.) I find from M. D’Avezac in Rec. de Voyages, (iv. 421), that this letter is published in Quétif & Echard, Scriptoris Ordinis Dom., i. p. 549, and that the second letter is given by Wadding, Annales Minorum, vi. 359.