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The cold desert of the tribe of Jel, was probably in the eastern part of Soongria; perhaps the Karang desert, north from Turfan and the Alak mountains. This is supposed to be the same place with Aramuth in other Journals; and to be named Oramchi in the Jesuits map Astl. Called Kharadztah, Harasliar, Hara-cosa, and Asarlic, by Forster. Now named Asarleak on our best maps.
His mother said that Pund- jel came out of a plot of reeds and rushes. Why-Why was silent, but thought in his heart that the whole theory was "bosh-bosh," to use the early reduplicative language of these remote times. Nor could he conceal his doubts about the Deluge and the frog who once drowned all the world. Here is the story of the frog: "Once, long ago, there was a big frog.
In order to miss nothing, we even conscientiously passed through the Woman's Building, where we were very much bored by the serried ranks of preserve jars. "'Sufferin' Hezekiah! cried gran'ther irritably 'Who cares how gooseberry jel looks. If they'd give a felly a taste, now
After their arrival, they passed the river Kenker on the twenty-second of Jomada-al-awal, and next day, they saw Mehemmed- Beg, prince of that horde, whose son, Soltan Shadi Karkan , was son-in- law to Shah Rokh, and a daughter of that prince had married Mirza Mehemmed Juki . On the twenty-eighth of the before named month, they entered the country of Ilduz , which was occupied by the tribe of Jel, and under the dominion of Shir Behram, or Scheir Begrahim; and though the sun was then in the summer solstice, they were often astonished to find ice two inches thick in this vast desert.
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