[9] Vide Introduction, vol. i. p. 58.
[10] Vide Mr. Ramsay’s evidence before the Committee of the Lords.
[11] Introduction to Elphinstone’s Caubul, page 131.
[12] It is with regret that I record the loss of these antiques, though impressions of them have been preserved.
[13] A Tartar custom and word in clearing the outer apartments of the seraglio.
[14] Among other pieces of advice, he suggested that we should eat onions in all the countries we visited; as it is a popular belief that a foreigner becomes sooner acclimated from the use of that vegetable.
[15] Erskine’s Translation of Baber.
[16] A Persian couplet runs thus:—
“Dur juhan ust do taefu be peer;
Soonee i Balkh, Shiah i Cashmeer:”