Departure from Koochan.--Atruck River.--Boojnoord.--Toorkmun Discipline.--Travelling in Khorasan.--Tribe of Gireilee.--Toorkmun Acquaintance.--Running down Partridges.--Toorkmun Bard.--Goklan Toorkmuns.--Their Customs.---Toorkmuns of the Caspian.--Toorkmun Patriarch.--Noble Scenery.--Toorkmun national Songs.--Quit the Country of the Toorkmuns.--Arrival at Astrabad.--Plague.--Arrival on the Caspian.--Adventures.-- Gardens of Ushruff.--Fortunate Escape.--The Plague.--Quit the Caspian.--Mazenderan.--Peasantry 100-127 CHAP. XVI. JOURNEY THROUGH PERSIA.--CONCLUSION OF THE NARRATIVE. Quit Mazenderan.--Pass of Gudook.--Gudook the “Pylæ Caspiæ.”--Feerozkoh.--Cure for the Taste of Quinine.--A Koord.--Vexations of a Traveller.--Arrival at Tehran.--Presentation to the Shah.--Return to India.--Route to the Coast.--Quit Persia.--Conclusion 128-142 BOOK I. GENERAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR ON PART OF CENTRAL ASIA. Notice regarding the Map of Central Asia 147 CHAPTER I. AN ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF BOKHARA. Limits and Extent.--Natural and political Divisions.--Physical Geography: Face of the Country.--Climate and Phenomena.-- Rivers.--Mountains.--Mineral Productions.--Vegetable.--Necessaries of Life.--Fruits and Wines.--Domestic Animals.--Wild Animals.-- Birds.--Silk Worms.--Diseases: Guinea Worm.--Cities and Towns.--Population of the Kingdom 153-185 CHAP. II. THE RIVER OXUS, OR AMOO; WITH SOME NOTICE OF THE SEA OF ARAL. Source and Course of the Oxus.--Sea of Aral.--Capabilities of the Oxus.--Depth, Current, and Slope.--Inundation.--Freezing.-- Craft on the Oxus.--Mode of navigating them.--Wood of the Oxus.--Political and commercial Advantages of the River 186-199 CHAP. III. ON THE VALLEY OF THE OXUS, ETC. Sketch of the Countries upon it.--Koondooz.--Budukhshan.--Ruby Mines.--Lapis Lazuli.--Mountain Districts North of Budukhshan.--Their Language.--Pamere.--Singular Animal, the Rass.--Chitral.--Gilgit.--Iskardo.--Their Language.--Kaffirs.--Their Descent from Alexander questioned.--Their Customs 200-213 CHAP. IV. ON THE REPUTED DESCENDANTS ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Traditions regarding them.--Actual Condition of these reputed Descendants.--Examination of their Claims.--Conjectures 214-219 CHAP. V. ON THE SOURCES OF THE INDUS. Interest attached to the Subject.--Received Opinions.--Their Error.--Description of the Shyook, the great Head of the Indus.--The Western Branch.--Country enclosed by both.--Name of Cashgar misapplied.--Errors pointed out 220-226 CHAP. VI. NOTICE OF YARKUND, AND ITS INTERCOURSE WITH PEKIN, BOKHARA, AND TIBET.