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'Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar. Also Report of a Journey to the Wahebee Capital of Riyadh in Central Arabia' [‎27r] (53/268)

The record is made up of 1 volume (132 folios). It was created in 1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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plain which slopes down to the village of Jullalabad, where our
mountain path again strikes into the main caravan road At the
debouchment of this glen is a watch-tower, so arranged that
the event of incursion the Turcomans can be seen coming own
the glen from a distance. The alarm in such case is immediately
given by the guard stationed permanently at the tower firing o
their matchlocks, and lighting a fire at the summit of the tower ;
the smoke ascending warns the neighbouring hamlets, and these
in turn take up the alarm, and rouse the entire district. After
leaving the glen we sloped gently through cultivated ground or
some mile and ahalf, until we reached our resting-place of Futtehah-
bad, a wall fort, with some poor huts outside. The people were
very civil, and offered me either the Musjid or the best house in
the fort I preferred the latter, as in the event of any fanatical
notion seizing on the village, a night in the former might have
cost me my head. Many Syuds reside in this village. In the
evening the head man of the village, and whose outer rooms 1
occupied, called and smoked.
Sunday the SOfft.-heft Futtehabad an hour before dawn; the
morning very cold, and yet we are in an usually warm plain. The
people 'anticipate that the winter will set in early this year If
so, the sooner we prepare for an icing between Seistan and Can-
dahar the better. After a couple of fursacks we came upon the
village of Jullalabad. Just on the further side of the village our
path joined that of the main caravan line from Turbut Hyderce to
Khaff Another fnrsack or so brought u^to the boundary hamlet
of Maneeabad, thence to Nuseerabad, Ruee, and to the lers.an
Frontier and the Desert towards Ghorian.
The district of Khaff is divided into Bala Khaff, upon which we
are now entering, and Khaff Faieen, or Lower Khaff, '“'“ding ic
old town of Ruee, commonly marked on the maps as Khaff. This
district is held under a sort of hereditary feuda tenure of the
Shah by the tribe of Timoorees, who were settled here, some
eighty or so years ago, by Ahmed Shah Dooranee. Previous to
that period these Timoorees had formed a portion of the tribes
yet bearing this name, but still inhabiting their ori^nal tern-
tory on the flanks of the Faroparmssus.

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The volume is Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar and Report of a Journey to the Wahabee Capital of Riyadh, in Central Arabia ,written by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and printed for Government by The Education Society's Press, Byculla, Bombay, 1866.

At the beginning of the volume (folio 6) is an introductory note by P Ryan, Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. . Both journey accounts are political in nature but include scientific observations on the lands Pelly travelled through. Each account includes several appendices that include letters, route notes, and information on the geology, flora, demography, and tribes. The volume includes two maps, the first showing the route Pelly took from Trebizond to Kurrachee [Karachi] (folio 7) and the second showing the route he took from Kuwait to Riyadh and back (folio 115).

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1 volume (132 folios)
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The volume has two contents pages relative to each journey account (folio 5 for the first, folio 75 for the second) that refer to the original pagination.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 134; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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