Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 2 of 3) / Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833

by Sir Alexander Burnes

Erect on my horse, no one can dismount me.

I am an only child, I have no brother or sister,—

Keep an Arab horse, hold a shield of iron.

Kurooghlee!

“If I breathe, the ice of the mountains melts,

The water of my eyes would turn a mill,

So said Jonas the Puree,—

Keep an Arab horse, hold a shield of iron.

Kurooghlee!”

A Toorkmun house.