Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's Note Italic text is represented by _underscores_. Sidenotes are in ~swung dashes~. Superscript is indicated by caret signs, e.g. Lith^{rs}. TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA; _&c. &c._ VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, New-Street-Square. [Illustration: _Drawn by D. M^c. Clise._ _Engraved by E. Find._ _Costume of Bokhara_ London, Published 1834, by John Murray, Albemarle Street.] TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA; BEING THE ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY FROM INDIA TO CABOOL, TARTARY, AND PERSIA; ALSO, NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ON THE INDUS, FROM THE SEA TO LAHORE, WITH PRESENTS FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN; PERFORMED UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE SUPREME GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, IN THE YEARS 1831, 1832, AND 1833. BY LIEUT. ALEX^R BURNES, F.R.S. OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S SERVICE; AS^T POLITICAL RESIDENT IN CUTCH, AND LATE ON A MISSION TO THE COURT of LAHORE. ----“Per syrtes iter æstuosas, .... _per inhospitalem Caucasum, vel quæ loca fabulosus Lambit Hydaspes_.” HOR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXXXIV. THESE TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA ARE INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD WILLIAM CAVENDISH BENTINCK, G.C.B. GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA, &c. &c. &c. UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES THEY WERE UNDERTAKEN AND PERFORMED, BY HIS LORDSHIP’S MOST OBEDIENT, FAITHFUL SERVANT, ALEX^R BURNES. TO THE READER. The following volumes contain the Narrative of my Voyage on the Indus, and subsequent Journey into Bokhara. I have thrown the Journey into the first two volumes, from its interest being, perhaps, greater than that of the Voyage; and since the two subjects, though parts of a whole, are distinct from each other. LIST OF PLATES. VOL. I. Plate I. Costume of Bokhara, to face the title-page. II. Colossal Idols at Bameean, to face page 183. (_This is a double plate, and must be folded._) VOL. II. III. Bactrian and other Coins, to face page 455. IV. Bactrian and other Coins, to face page 455. VOL. III. V. View of Hydrabad on the Indus, to face title-page. VI. Natives of Cutch, to face page 9. VII. Natives of Sinde, to face page 87. VIII. View of Sindree, to face page 309. N.B. Mr. John Arrowsmith’s Map, constructed expressly for this work, is sold separately by all booksellers, price, in sheets 7_s._, in cover 7_s._ 6_d._, and in case 10_s._ ADVERTISEMENT REGARDING THE MAP OF CENTRAL ASIA AND THE INDUS.