. 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. k, is here about three quarters of amile in width, deep, and not very muddy, 30 DERIVATION OF ATTOK, containing, I should think, at least half asmuch water again as any other stream ofthe Punjaba, running at the rate of nearlythree miles an hour. The name Attok isderived from Atkana, or Atukna, signifyingin Hindustani, to stop; no pious Hindoo willventure to go beyond it of his own accord,for fear of losing caste. F
. 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. k, is here about three quarters of amile in width, deep, and not very muddy, 30 DERIVATION OF ATTOK, containing, I should think, at least half asmuch water again as any other stream ofthe Punjaba, running at the rate of nearlythree miles an hour. The name Attok isderived from Atkana, or Atukna, signifyingin Hindustani, to stop; no pious Hindoo willventure to go beyond it of his own accord,for fear of losing caste. From the moun-tains downward to the junction at Mittun-kote, it is called the Sinde, or Abu Sin, the father river/ There is upon recordan account of a Hindu or Sikh force, thatchased a party of Mussulmen across theIndus, but refused to follow up their suc-cess by crossing it themselves. I regretthat I did not make a note of the circum-stance when it was related to me, but itmay be known to many of my orientalreaders. Such is the wonderful attachmentto the British uniform, which they are proudof wearing, that in the late expedition toAfghanistan, the native Sepahis, many of12. 7, X w ^ ^ < ^^ ^ .^^ m © f^ -§ :5y o ?-^ ^ 1=3 -fe 1=3 ?y ^ S g ^ f^ © « 1 ^ t 53 ! f^ ir^ 4)^ THE TUKT-I-SULIMAN. 31 them Rajpoots, cheered loudly when theysaw the British flag flying at Bukkur, andpassed the bridge over the Indus withenthusiasm. Replete with interest from the moun-tains of Upper Tibet and Karakorun,to its junction with the ocean at Karachi,this vast stream appears to roll over, ratherthan through, the naked sand of the plains,and where, without it, there would beneither barrier nor boundary ; it wandersfrom the northern to the southern horizon,as if unconscious of its own importance asa line of demarcation, or as a Rubiconalike to the native and the invader ofHindostan. The Tukt-i-Suliman, or Kayser moun-tain, bore north-north-west of the ferry,distant about forty miles. There are
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