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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Change of Dress.--Visit the Minister.--Suspicions regarding
  us.--Description of the Registan, or great Bazar of
  Bokhara.--Employments in the Bazar.--Society at Bokhara.--Slave
  Bazar at Bokhara.--Offenders against Mahommedanism.--Hindoos.--A
  Wanderer.--An Indian Sepoy.--A pretty Fair One.--Costume.--Baths
  of Bokhara.--Interview with the Minister.--The King.--Life of a
  King.--Russian Slaves.--Acquaintances at Bokhara              267-299


  CHAP. X.

  BOKHARA.

  The City of Bokhara.--Historical Sketch of it.--Colleges of
  Bokhara.--Rigour of Mahommedanism.--Literature of Central
  Asia.--Interview with the Vizier.--Samarcand.--Tomb of Bhawa
  Deen.--An Ancient City, Coins, &c.--An Uzbek Family.--Bokhara
  on Friday.--Arrangements.--Farewell Visit to the
  Vizier.--Departure                                            300-329


  CHAP. XI.

  DETENTION IN THE KINGDOM OF BOKHARA.

  Detention of the Caravan.--Assemblage of
  Merchants.--Country between Bokhara and the
  Oxus.--Intercourse with the Toorkmuns.--A Toorkmun
  Acquaintance.--Ersaree Toorkmuns.--Slavery in
  Toorkistan.--Fellow-travellers.--Music.--Our own Party.--Ruins
  of Bykund.--Alexander’s Marches.--Reply from the Khan of
  Orgunje.--Uzbek Customs.--Preparations for Departure.--Receive
  Letters from India.--Reflections                              330-356




NARRATIVE.




CHAPTER I.

LAHORE.


~Departure from Delhi.~

In the end of December, 1831, I had the honour to obtain the final
sanction of the Governor-general of India to proceed to Central Asia.
I received my passports from his lordship at Delhi on the 23d of that
month, and proceeded by express to Lodiana on the frontiers, where
I had the pleasure of meeting my fellow-traveller Mr. James Gerard,
of the Bengal army. We here experienced many acts of kindness and
assistance from Capt. C. M. Wade, the political agent, whose good
offices I have to acknowledge with gratitude. The society of this, the
most remote station of British India, also evinced an interest in our
welfare which was truly gratifying. We took leave of it at a convivial
party given for the occasion on the 2d of January, and on the following
day bade a long farewell to such scenes, and plunged into the solitude
of an Indian desert. We took the route that leads along the left bank
of the Sutlege, till that river is joined by the Beas or Hyphasis.

~Communication from Runjeet Sing.~

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