"تاريخ بلاد فارس، من أقدم فترة إلى الوقت الحالي: ويشمل تقريرًا عن الدين، الحكومة، وعادات وصفات سكان تلك المملكة. إعداد العقيد السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، وفارس وسام الأسد والشمس، الوزير المفوض السابق إلى البلاط الفارسي من الحكومة العليا في الهند . في مجلدين." [‎١‎٤] (٧٣٠/٢٩)

PREFACE.
report upon the provinces of Mekran, Baloochistan,
and Seistan, which divide India from Persia, and
who executed that difficult task with a spirit of
enterprise that must ever reflect the highest honour
on their characters, I owe information, which is the
more valuable as it could have been derived from no
other source. I am also much indebted to the reports
and communications of Captains Frederick and Josiah
Stewart, Mr. Henry Ellis, Captain John Briggs, and
Captain John M'Donald Kinnier. The latter Officer
has since acquired a just reputation by the publication
of a Map and Geographical Memoir * on Persia, which is
partly compiled from his own surveys and observations,
and partly from those of the other Officers who were
of Captain Grant, who was murdered by a banditti on his journey from Bagdad
to Kermanshah; and Captain Christie lately fell in a contest between the Persians
and Russians, m which he gallantly supported the reputation of British valour.
Lieutenant Pottinger, who is now Assistant to the Resident at Poonah, has,
I am happy to hear, prepared a Work upon the countries through which he
travelled; and I have no doubt, from the nature of the subject, and the talents
of this Officer, that it will be highly deserving the attention of the public.
# Captain John M'Donald Kinnier has, since the publication of his Memoir^
been employed in Asia Minor, and has traversed some of the least known parts of
that celebrated country. It is to be hoped that we shall ere long profit by the
additional information which this able and enterprising Officer must have acquired
in this arduous and dangerous enterprise.