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The First Part of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi is called, by the Author, the Tarikh-i-Asl, or 'Real History.' The Second Part he styles Mukhtasar, or  'Epitome.'

''The First Part was written after the Second Part had been completed. This accounts for the Author remarking, in several places in Part I., that he has written certain passages in Part II.; while in Part II. he promises to make certain statements in Part I.''

The system adopted in spelling proper names has been explained in the Preface, pp. x. and x., which see.

It has also been noticed in the Preface (p. xii.) that the extracts from the Zafar-Náma ''are printed in smaller type than the rest of the text. No difference in type, however, has been made for the extracts from the'' Tarikh-i-Jahiá Kushai. Those from the former work (with the exception of the very brief one in Chapter XCIX. of Part II.) were translated from original texts; while those from the latter (though collated with a copy of the Jahán Kushai) were translated from the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, as Mirza Haidar gives them.

The ordinary, or curved, parentheses in the teat, are the Author's. The light ''angular brackets enclose words inserted by the translator or the editor, in order to render a passage complete in English, or to make sense. The heavy angular brackets contain words, or sentences, interpolated by the Turki translator, or substituted from his version, and are the outcome of the collation of the Turki teat with the Persian. They appear first at page 177 and continue, at intervals, to the end of the book.''

The foot-notes to the teat, referring to the translation, and signed R., ''are those of Mr. Ross. Those in Section IV. of the Introduction, when signed H. H., are by Sir Henry Howorth. Those in Chapters LXXXIX. to XCI. added by Dr. L. A. Waddell on certain Tibetan subjects, are signed with his initials. The rest of the notes are editorial.''