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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' [55v] (110/268)
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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a long barn-like room in which my rug had been spread. There
I relieved myself of nearly all my clothes, and throwing a Jub-
bah over me, lay down to sleep. Suddenly the Mirza came
in and told mo the Khan was coming to see me. But I desired
him to inform the Khan that I was undressed and about to go to
sleep, and that I • should feel obliged if he would postpone his
visit. Immediately afterwards the Khan appeared, followed by
two youths, a third person with his face and head wrapped in
a towel, and by some other miscellaneous persons. I had scarcely
time to rise and cover my lower extremities with my Jubbah
before the Khan and his suite had seated themselves on my
carpet. Compliments were rapidly exchanged, and then the
Khan launched out concerning my journey through Afghanistan.
It was a dangerous road. It was dangerous every where, even
to Caubul itself. Every one robbed or killed. Feringees, es
pecially, were robbed and killed. It was from apprehension of
this that the. Ameer had declined to receive an English Officer
on permanent residence at Caubul. As to Buckwa it "was the
most dangerous place of all. “ There,” said the Khan, “ is feirdar
Malek Khan, son to Ibrahim Khan, Seistan (the person who
murdered Dr. Forbes) ; his men would -murder you any where.
He himself would send on and direct his people to intercept you
at the Kash road. What is to hinder him ? The Afghans them
selves would kill you if it were not for me. We are Afghans,
great swords-men, very brave, and do what we like. Tins is our
country. I know not what Feringees can want here.”
After a good deal more in this strain, I replied that I was
surprised to hear so unfavourable an account of the safety
of the roads through the territories of the Ameer. But that 1
trusted none the less that I should in due time reach Caubul,
quite sound; and that I had received no orders regarding danger
or murder. I was simply an English Officer travelling on duty
through a friendly state. If, as I understood was the case,
the Beloochees were on the road across the Buckwa Desert, I had
no doubt the Khan would lend me a few sowars to escort me as
far as Washeer; if there were no great chance of meeting with
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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)
- Arrangement
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'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:133v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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