. 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. sed, andwere driving off to the mountains. Theydesisted, as the rescue approached. Thestoppage of the water-courses was anotherserious cause of a quarrel. The moun-taineers descended in the night, and turnedthe principal stream by which the campwas supplied. A well-armed party salhedforth, in the morning, to the place wherethe dam had been made. The mountaineersfled at their approach; and they returnedfrom the exped
. 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. sed, andwere driving off to the mountains. Theydesisted, as the rescue approached. Thestoppage of the water-courses was anotherserious cause of a quarrel. The moun-taineers descended in the night, and turnedthe principal stream by which the campwas supplied. A well-armed party salhedforth, in the morning, to the place wherethe dam had been made. The mountaineersfled at their approach; and they returnedfrom the expedition, singing, shouting, anddancing a regular war dance, brandishingat the same time their drawn swords. Theday of departure was at length fixed;but on the evening before, we heard that 06 CAPTIVES REDEEMED. some Lohanis had been detained by theNawab of Dhera Ismael Khan, and theirrelatives went round the camp with theKoran in their hand, praying their friends,for the love of God and respect for thetrue faith, to remain one day longer, andgive the detenus a chance of recoveringtheir liberty; which, on the morrow, I wasglad to hear they had purchased for twothousand MARKHUR GOAT. CHAPTER III. The Kafila—The Caravan sets out — High Tempera-ture—Ladles mounted on Camels—Their Dress—Theorder maintained—Night Guards—Zurkhaneh —Shonkul—Great height of the Thermometer—GomulRiver—Medical practice—Encamp at Monjighurra—Tax levied here—Mountaineer ferocity—Enter theTerritory of the Tak Rajah—Alarm of Attack—Moun-tain Strata—Nilei—Enter a Defile—The Vuziris—Precaution taken—Lohani Graves—The Serpent-eater—Ursak—The Tukt-i-Suliman—Fresh Alarm—Reach Terapore—Treatment of a Sick Man—Scufflewith a Holy Man—A Lohani Funeral—Predestination. The kafila, or caravan, in which I travelled, is the last and the largest of those that pro- F 2 68 THE KAFILAS AND WARES. ceed every year from Derabund to first and second sta
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