Travels into Bokhara (Volume 3 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

[2] Arrian, lib. vi. c. 19.

[3] An officer who receives a guest.

[4] Banians.

[5] Arrian, lib. 6.

[6] The species hunted in Sinde is called “hotapuchu:” it is a kind of hog deer.

[7] Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde. Edin. 1831.

[8] It would appear from this, that they smoked in that age: it must have been bang, or hemp, since tobacco was unknown till the discovery of America.

[9] Ayeen Acbaree.

[10] It was my conversation with these men which made me decide on undertaking the journey to Central Asia, which I afterwards performed.

[11] “May the Gooroo be victorious,” the national war-cry of the Seiks.