. 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. thisplace, and rendered the air deliciouslycool for a day or two afterwards. Thesesudden storms are common throughoutIndia in the spring. For an hour beforesunset, clouds are gathered in the west-ern horizon, which is illuminated wdthrepeated flashes of lightning, accompaniedwith a continued muttering of distantthunder, the atmosphere becoming oppres-sively sultry. Suddenly the heavens arefuriously agitated, a brigh
. 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. thisplace, and rendered the air deliciouslycool for a day or two afterwards. Thesesudden storms are common throughoutIndia in the spring. For an hour beforesunset, clouds are gathered in the west-ern horizon, which is illuminated wdthrepeated flashes of lightning, accompaniedwith a continued muttering of distantthunder, the atmosphere becoming oppres-sively sultry. Suddenly the heavens arefuriously agitated, a brightening space is D 34 A TUFAN. seen on the horizon, and the clouds ap-pear, rapidly diverging from it as froma centre. A few large drops of rain aredashed downwards with great violence, thewhirlwind rises almost instantly, and blowsas if it blew its last, with a violence towhich Europe is a stranger. The rain thenfalls as if a deluge were commencing:sudden and terrific crashes of thunder areheard above and around, and hail stones,such as we have read of, are often precipi-tated with most injurious effect. Theviolence of the tufan is generally exhaustedin about half an BORDER TOWER. CHAPTER 11. The Kayser Mountain—Village of Gundee and Mound—Ruins—Reach the Lohani camp—Lohani Saluta-tions—High Range of Temperature—Mulberry Bird—Description of the Camp Amusements — AmeerKhans Stories—Story from the Ferishta—MahmudKhans Empire—Runjit Sings Conquests—The Lo-hanis—Duties levied on the Merchants—Village ofDerabund—Earthquake—The Mountaineers—Mine-ral Fluid and Mumiar—Mountaineer Attacks. I NEVER saw a finer morning than thatwhich broke after the storm had passed d2 36 MOUNTAIN RANGES. away. The jungle had disappeared, and Iemerged on an open space of vast extent,destitute even of a blade of grass, and asflat as a bowling-green. It seemed to ex-tend, with scarcely any intervening object,to the very foot of the Sulimani Kayser mountai
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