find Polo”s city of _Camadi_
In the abstract of Major Smith”s Itinerary as we have given it, we do not
find Polo”s city of _Camadi_. Major Smith writes to me, however, that this
is probably to be sought in ‘the ruined city, the traces of which I
observed in the plain of Jruft near Kerimabad. The name of the city is
now apparently lost.’ It is, however, known to the natives as the _City of
Dakins_, as Mr. Abbott, who visited the site, informs us. This is a name
analogous only to the Arthur”s ovens or Merlin”s caves of our own country,
for all over Mahomedan Asia there are old sites to which legend attaches
the name of _Dakianus_ or the Emperor Decius, the persecuting tyrant of
the Seven Sleepers. ‘The spot,’ says Abbott, ‘is an elevated part of the
plain on the right bank of the Hali Rd, and is thickly strewn with
kiln-baked bricks, and shreds of pottery and glass…. After heavy rain the
peasantry search amongst the ruins for ornaments of stone, and rings and
coins of gold, silver, and copper. The popular tradition concerning the
city is that it was destroyed by a flood long before the birth of Mahomed.’
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