Item 13 - Postcard from E. B. Cowell to W. Aldis Wright

(Cambridge.)—Cites details of the word ‘Baluchi’ from a Persian dictionary.

(Postmarked at Cambridge.)

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Transcript

I have never remembered till today to look out Baluchi in my Dict. It is ch, not kh, [Followed by Persian characters.] Vullers gives it as a Turkish word. He says that it is properly Bulūchō, Bulūch being the name of the country; but he also gives Bulūch as the name of the tribe.

E.B.C.

Nov. 8.

[Direction:] The Vice-Master, Trinity College [At the foot:] Local.

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Postmarked at Cambridge on 8 November 1897.