'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.' [‎75] (88/314)

FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
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found on record, until the year of the chriftian sera, '997, when
Sabu&agi, a Tartar officer, in the fervice of the chief of Kho-
rafan, who was fubje£t at that period to Munfur at Samani,*
the great khan of Bochara, having at his mailer’s death, fuc-
ceeeded to the territory, renounced the Tartar vaffalage, and ex
tending his conquefts to Afghaniftan, made Ghizni the capital
of his empire.
The Ghiznavi dominion, which involved a large portion of
Perfia and Hindoftan, acquired chiefly by the arms of Mahmoud,
the fon of Sabuftagi, flouriflied for the fpace of two hundred
and feven years, when it was wrefted from Kufro, the laft of
the race of Sabuclagi, by the Afghan Mohomed Ghori.f This
prince bequeathed to Eldoze, a favorite flave, his pofleffions weft
of the Indus, which were quickly overrun by a Eerfxan prince of
Khariftn, whofe fuccelTor Tillal-ud-Dein, was compelled to fly
before the viclorious fword of Zinzis.J
From the period of that revolution, till the invafion of Timur
Beg, the hiftory of the Afghans is immerfed in general obfcurity ;
and little fatisfactory knowledge of their government has been com
municated to us, except by Ferilhta, who fays that in the year
1251, Mahmoud, a Patan, king of Dehli, drove the Moghul Tar-
^ The fifth prince of that dynafly.
f So called from Ghor a diftrift or principal town, in the northern town in the
northern part of Afghaniftan.
$ This event happened about the year 1242,
K z tars