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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' [‎39v] (78/268)

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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tive energies of man could not turn this site into a waste. Other
cities throughout Asia have arisen, been sacked, and passed
away. But Herat, though sacked, ruined, enslaved, depopulated,
through a long succession of centuries, still thrives among its
ruins. In 1839 it was so reduced that grain was not to be pur
chased in the bazar. And the Vizier, Yar Mahomed Khan, had
at length resolved on abandoning the site, and removing north
ward with the wreck of his subjects and followers to the plain of
Rooskh. From this dilemma, however, the arrival of the English
Mission and an outlay of £200,000 of English money saved the
Vizier. Herat weathered the year, and as its people say, it
requires to be left alone but for two years to become once more
populous and flourishing even after the heaviest disasters.
From the Musella we passed a garden enclosure with the ruins
of a country house in its centre. The Naib pointed out this place as
having been the house where his uncle, the celebrated Futteh
Khan, was deprived of sight. Yar Mahomed’s tomb was visible
to our north, immediately under the hills.
Saturday, 13M.—News in to-day of a second disaster sustained
by the Persian force, at the hands of the Saloor and Sarookh
Turcomans of Punjdeh. It appears that the force turned off its
direct line of flight, and moved east to the Sarookh stronghold.
These tribes were in enmity with the Tekkies, and had recently
aided and provisioned the Persian army. They now received the
Prince with courtesy, and fed his followers. Suddenly the follow
ing morning they rushed on the Persians, seized their baggage,
animals, and supplies, made slaves of some three or four thousand,
disarmed many more, while the Prince, his second in command,
and some immediate followers mounted horse, and trusting them
selves to the guidance of an Hazareh Chief named Mollah
Youssuf, fled towards Herat, followed by some eight or nine
thousand stragglers on foot, and who had either escaped in the
confusion, or who had been taken, stripped, and turned loose as
valueless.
. Sunday, 1 4th, and Monday, 15th .—Employed in arranging about
the Persian force, and in writing reports for Teheran and India.

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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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'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' [‎39v] (78/268), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/5/394, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100042666751.0x00004f> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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