. A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed: with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition. tan been here; it was hisfate, and God so willed it, and nothingwould have saved him. The most eminent PREDESTINATION. 97 Christian divines have disputed, and willdispute, on predestination. Mahomed hascontrived to entice half the world into abelief of it; and yet a Mahomedan, fightingagainst the Infidels, must either feel assuredthat he is pleasing the Prophet, without anychance of his fate being the better for it;
. A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed: with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition. tan been here; it was hisfate, and God so willed it, and nothingwould have saved him. The most eminent PREDESTINATION. 97 Christian divines have disputed, and willdispute, on predestination. Mahomed hascontrived to entice half the world into abelief of it; and yet a Mahomedan, fightingagainst the Infidels, must either feel assuredthat he is pleasing the Prophet, without anychance of his fate being the better for it;or must be contradicting his own creed, byinconsistently thinking that a meritoriousdeath will be of service to him in has made use of the doctrine forthe spreading of his own opinions; and hasneutralized all the revolting and disagree-able part of it, by allowing his followers a lifeof sensuality, and the prospect of a heaven,than which the warmest imagination cannotpaint one more likely to attract look upon a Mussulman, who fully believesthat he is predestinated to a place in theProphets paradise, as rather an enviableperson than otherwise. H. THE LOHAKlS GRAVE. CHAPTER IV. Arrival at Karandur^—Sirmagha—Vegetable Soap—Edi-ble Rhubarb—Parting for Kandahar of some of theLohanis—Encamp in a Mountain Pass—Scener} andDelicious Breeze—Thermometer and Elevation—Suliman Kyi Tribe—Mode of Robbing—Tribute toDost Mahomed Khan — Boundaries — Encamp atKatawaz—Dsharah Ridge—Mountain Sheep—Ruinsof Zohaka—Sand Grouse—Eyesight Judgment of theAborigines—Round Forts — Revenue-Officers fromKabul—Ameer Khans Killah—Illness of the Author—Proceed to Ghuzni—Character of the Lohanis—Scenery around Ghuzni. On the fifteenth of June we arrived atSturei, and, on the sixteenth, at Karandur, FISH AND EDIBLE CICADA. 99 both on the same stream. Whilst we werenearer the plains, the boys used to catcha fish, which 1 believe to be the
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