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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' [‎69r] (137/268)

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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The mission was, I think, commercial and political, but partially
veiled by the circumstances of M. Khanikotf being himself a
savan, travelling under the patronage of the Geographical Society
at St. Petersburg!!. The instructions seem to have been—
1st .—To survey or examine that block of territory contained
between the points Shahood, Meshed, Herat, Furrah,
Laush, Sowain, Kerman, and Yezd.
2nd .—To feel his way with Sultan Ahmed Khan, and if pos
sible to arrange for the establishment of commercial and
political relations between Herat and Russia.
3rd .—If possible to follow the same course in respect to
Dost Mahomed Khan and his territory.
Mil .—To avail himself of any opportunity offering for ex
tending his surveys to the eastward of Herat, along the
direct lines of Oaubul and Candahar.
hth .—To collect scientific information.
In regard to the 1st item of instructions we find that the
block of territory in large part surveyed, and for the remainder
traversed by M. Khanikoff, is exactly that which a General desirous
of isolating Herat, and of reaching Candahar without passing by
Herat from the south-eastern corner of the Caspian, and from
the Teheran line of road, would desire to examine, and I enter
tain little doubt that M. Khanikoff must have satisfied himself
that it would be quite practicable, with ordinary prudence as to
arrangement of season and provisions, to concentrate a large and
well-equipped force in the neighbourhood of Furrah and Sabzver,
by lines branching off from the Meshed and Teheran road in a
south-easterly direction, and forming the hypothenuses of trian
gles, whereof the lines to Herat and thence to Furrah would
form the remaining sides. The districts which M. Khanikoff
most carefully surveyed, to which indeed he deputed, as he him
self admitted to Sir Henry Rawlinson, two separate parties, and
proved the tvyo surveys by causing them to work the one into the
other, were the districts of Toorsheez, Tabhas, Toon, Khaff, Ghayn,
and Laush; and it is remarkable that these districts contain the
lines along which a well-equipped force would most easily branch

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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' [‎69r] (137/268), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/5/394, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100042666751.0x00008a> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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