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 fifths [?] of the produce, with the understanding that after holding their share for fifty years, they should yield as tax one-half of its produce. This stipulation is still in force.

. As regards Nahr al-Amîr, it was ascribed to ʿÎsa ibn-ʿAli and lay in his fief.

. We were informed by Muḥammad ibn-Khâlid that Muḥammad ibn-al-Ḳâsim presented to al-Ḥajjâj an elephant from as-Sind which was transported through al-Baṭâʾiḥ [the great swamp] on a ship and was landed at a watering place, which has since been called Mashraʿat al-Fîl or Furḍat al-Fîl.