. 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. wed to pass, as well as foot-passen-gers. There is room enough for all these 160 THE BAZAARS. in the principal bazaar; but in those ofminor importance in Kabul, a countrymanwith a loaded donkey throws the wholeplace into confusion, thinking it very hardif the crowd does not give way to him. Iwell remember meeting a mule laden withgrass, that was just entering a narrow streetas I was coming out of it. I could onlytur
. 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. wed to pass, as well as foot-passen-gers. There is room enough for all these 160 THE BAZAARS. in the principal bazaar; but in those ofminor importance in Kabul, a countrymanwith a loaded donkey throws the wholeplace into confusion, thinking it very hardif the crowd does not give way to him. Iwell remember meeting a mule laden withgrass, that was just entering a narrow streetas I was coming out of it. I could onlyturn my horse with the greatest difficulty,and motioned to the driver to go did so; but exclaimed aloud, IsDost Mahomed dead, that there is no jus-tice ? This is a common phrase used bythe inhabitants of Kabul upon similar occa-sions. It is hardly possible to ride throughany part of Kabul without passing along abazaar, consisting of a double line of stallsor shops, in which goods are exposed forsale, and in which artificers work openly attheir different trades. The great bazaarhas a vaulted roof; but over the inferiorones, during the summer months, branches tS: :l^T:3f. c^ \ t- ^ © ^ &1 * a i^ ^ ^ ^ .s. fe GEOGRAPHICAL vSlTE OF KABUL. 161 of trees, covered with matting, are thrownacross, for the purpose of obtaining shade. The latitude of the city of Kabul is34° 23, nearly the same as that of Tripoli,Syria, Candia, Tunis, Madeira nearly,South Carolina, the centre of Japan, thesouth part of Corea, and the mouth of theRiver Hoangho. Its longitude is 69° 8,the same, or nearly, as that of Hyderabad,in Sinde; the Chagos Archipelago, in theIndian Ocean; and Kerguelens Land, moreto the south, with Tobolsk and Nova Zem-bla, on the north. The boiling point of water gave Kabulan elevation of about six thousand feetabove the sea. From the middle of July tothe middle of August, the thermometerstood at eighty degrees in my room. Theclimate is delightful, and cooler than Kash- M 162
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