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Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3): 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 1833Burnes, Alexander, Sir

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Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3): 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

Name: Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3): 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
Author: Burnes, Alexander, Sir

Burnes, Alexander, Sir

Afghanistan -- Description and travel; Asia, Central -- Description and travel; Bukhoro (Uzbekistan) -- Description and travel; Burnes, Alexander, Sir, 1805-1841 -- Travel; Indus River Valley -- Description and travel

To Captain R. M. Grindlay, author of a series of Views of Western
India, I am indebted for most of the illustrations, which do ample
credit to his talents and pencil. To my brother, Dr. David Burnes, who
has assisted me in the laborious task of correcting the press, I offer
my best thanks; which, I think, completes the whole of my obligations.

I have now only to express an anxious hope, that my fellow traveller,
Dr. Gerard, who has not yet reached India, may soon be restored to his
friends, to share in the approbation which has been bestowed, I fear
too liberally, upon myself.

  ALEX^R BURNES.

 _London, June, 1834._

FOOTNOTE:

[2] I have now to deplore, with the sincerest sorrow, the death of
this worthy man. His fate was indeed cruel: he passed safely through
the deserts and dangers of Tartary, and now moulders at Vellore, where
he died of cholera, while accompanying me to Calcutta. A generous
Government have not forgotten his merits: his widow has been liberally
pensioned, his family has been provided for, and his sons, on their
attaining a certain age, will be admitted into the public service. This
well-timed bounty has not passed unnoticed by the Indian community. I
observe it mentioned in a Bengal newspaper, edited by a native, who
calls upon his countrymen on that side of India to emulate such a
career, and see that they are not left behind those at Bombay in mental
advancement.




CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.


  CHAPTER I.

  LAHORE.
                                                                   Page
  Departure from Delhi.--Communication from Runjeet
  Sing.--Himalaya.--Villages on the Sutlege: People.--Banks
  of the Sutlege.--Physical Phenomena of Rivers.--Altars of
  Alexander.--Enter the Punjab.--Our Welcome chanted.--Civilities
  at Hurree.--Seik Fanatics.--Manja; country so called.--Antient
  Canals.--Town of Puttee.--Stud of Horses at Puttee.--An Acali,
  or Fanatic.--A Seik Chief and his Castle.--Famous Road of
  Juhangeer.--Enter Lahore.--Visit the Maharaja.--Earthquake
  at Lahore.--Join Runjeet Sing in the Field.--Description
  of his Camp.--Runjeet Sing marching.--Conversations of
  Runjeet Sing.--Superb Cashmere Tents.--A Visit from the
  Physician-general.--Runjeet Sing sporting.--Conversations of
  Runjeet Sing.--Return to Lahore.--Festival of the Busunt, or
  Spring.--Entertainment by the Maharaja.--Preparations for our
  Journey.--Kindness of Messrs. Allard and Court.--Audience of
  Leave.--Mons. Court’s Instructions                               1-38


  CHAP. II.

  ACROSS THE PUNJAB TO THE INDUS.

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