"يوميّات رحلة من بلاد فارس إلى الهند عبر هراة وقندهار. وأيضًا تقرير رحلة إلى العاصمة الوهابية، الرياض في وسط الجزيرة العربية" [ظ‎‎٣‎١] (٢٦٨/٦٢)

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after three Wks, a series of rocky eminences, the last of winch
bore a cairn and the name of the Dockturur-i-Sune-. q •
gradually for two fursacks across a second valley of smaller ext™!
we paused for a few minutes at a ruined caravanserai, situate im
mediately at the foot of a range of hills, which we entered at sun
pki’n CTO M h mSOmeWh , atOTer a f " rsack< a “ d S0 on the
plain. My horse was la.no and tired, so I dismounted, and ex
changed nags with the Nazir; riding his beast to a covered tank
d stant some three quarters of a fursack on the hither side of
Ghonan. Here, at about 9 F.M., we alighted for the night The
men seemed still fresh; and two of them had the entire
c .stance from Khaff; a length of road of 19 fursaeks of Khorassan
or about .0 miles, although I calculated it at nearly 90 miles
hese same men had previously footed it day by day through all
my marches from Meshed. Ihavenotsecn them fagonce, and o
arrival at our stations they unload the animals, fed them and
walk them about as if no march had taken place. Again the
.orsemen I have just brought back with me originally left Ghorian
on the night of the 1st, so that in less than -18 hours they have
“ arC f 9 Khorass "> fursacks, or I would say more correctly
about loO miles, and this across an arid desert, without water fo!
the larger portion of the way. The pace throughout was leisurely
anging from a walk to a scuffle, an amble or a jog-trot The
pace of the footmen .was the same. At the tank I passed the
night of the 3rd October. 1 1
At sunrise on the 4th we moved somewhat less than a fursack
Ghorian itself, cross,ng on the road the dry bed of a tribu.
tary of the Hen-rood. At Ghorian, the quarters of the Governor
the Sirteep Mahomed Ghyas Khan, had been hospitably prepared
for me. The Sirteep himself was absent with the expedition now
ca., j mg on against the Jnmshecdee tribe. But his brother Abdool
Ghyas Khan mot me about a mile beyond the frontiers, and
informed me that he was nominated by the Sirdar to accompany
me as Mehmandar to Herat. At his b rother’s house he brough! *
* NoxE.-TheWuzier of the Sultan of Muscat^d^^ZT^T
or roundly 100 mile, i„ 20 (twenty, consecutive hour,, „„ “^ion oTt
coming to meet me at Muscat last month, December 1861. ' S