'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.' [‎46] (59/314)

FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
On the morning of the 9th, before day light, we left Mourree,
and after travelling fome hours through a wild and gloomy tra£V,
on which the turn of my mind, threw perhaps, an additional
fhade, and encountering many ill-looking fellows, who viewed us
with a keen eye, we joined the Pefhour party, where we ex
perienced from the countrymen of Mohubullah, every token of
welcome.
At noon arrived at Hyder B unghee, nine coffes, a populous
village dependant on Attock, the principal town of a fmall dif-
trift, which acknowledges the fupremacy of Timur Shah. The
chief, an Afghan, yields an obedience conformable to the motions
of that prince, or the leading motives of the day ; but, when def-
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titute of other refource, he furnifhes a tribute of about fifty thou-
fand rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
On the 10th, at Bazzar, five coffes, a fmall village, at the dif-
tance of three quarters of a mile from the weftern fhore of the
river Indus,* which w 7 e crofied about twenty miles above the town
of Attock. The Pcream, though not agitated by wind, was rapid
with a rough undulating motion, and about three quarters of a
mile, or a mile in breadth, where it w^as not interrupted by
ifiands ; and having, as nearly as I could judge, a weft and by
fouth courfe. The water was much difcoloured by a fine black
In the Periian language, ufually called the Ab or Water of Scind, and fometimes
Neil Ab or Blue Water ; md by the Hindoos Scind and Attock.
fand.