And sunniest apples that Caubul
In all its thousand gardens bears."
Light of the Harem.
Mr. Arnold does likewise in Sohrab and Rustam:
"But as a troop of pedlars from Cabool,
Cross underneath the Indian Caucasus...."
It was told characteristically of the late Lord Ellenborough that, after his arrival in India, though for months he heard the name correctly spoken by his councillors and his staff, he persisted in calling it Căbōol till he met Dost Mahommed Khan. After the interview the Governor-General announced as a new discovery, from the Amir's pronunciation, that Cābŭl was the correct form.
1552.—Barros calls it "a Cidade Cabol, Metropoli dos Mogoles."—IV. vi. 1.
[c. 1590.—"The territory of Kábul comprises twenty Tumáns."—Āīn, tr. Jarrett, ii. 410.]
1856.—