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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' [‎103v] (206/268)

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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under the direct authority of Government. Later in the interview
ho remarked aside to his joooplo that I seemed to be a good man;
and regretted I was an infidel.
80. Turning to mo he said I might go any where in his country;
and that ho hoped we should now open a new volume of friendly
relations. He would always write to me and keep mo informed
on matters concerning his people bordering on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
After my departure the Imam expressed himself much pleased
with the visit; and I sent him a rifle gun, a gold watch, some
red broad cloth, a gilt pistol, and a sword made to please the Arab
taste. It seems that the sword was more admired than any thing
else.
81. On returning home tho Imam’s Secretary called on mo,
and I had some talk with him concerning my proposed visit to
the pastoral and watered region in Kharej known as Seh. Some
thing however occurred this day, of which I am even now, perhaps,
not wholly informed, and which gave a sudden and unpleasant
turn to my position at Riyadh. Impediments were obtruded by
tho Secretary to my proceeding to Kharej ; and calling a second
time in the evening he finally proposed my remaining at Riyadh
until some horses should be brought up for my inspection. I replied
at once that this delay was quite out of the question ; that I should
have been prepared to deviate a few hours from my direct route in
order to see the Imam’s horses; but that having a steamer awaiting
me on the coast I could not linger many days for my own pleasure.
I had moreover been carefully cautioned at Kowait, that if I per
sisted in going to Riyadh, I should on no account stay there more
than a couple of days at tho utmost for fear of accidents; as
Arabs, it was reiterated, are very treacherous, and apt to change
their minds. Many things that I had seen and heard during tho
day warned me that a change was now going on. On tho whole,
I came to the conclusion that while the Imam > himself was a
sensible and experienced man, yet that he was surrounded by
some of the most excitable, unscrupulous, dangerous, and fanati-

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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' [‎103v] (206/268), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/5/394, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100042666752.0x000007> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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