. 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. y letter to Murad Beg, were BACTRIAN COINS OBTAINED. 225 thought SO unworthy of the occasion, thatthe minister who saw them refused to showeither the presents or the letter to hismaster. I procured a great number of coins atKabul, chiefly Bactrian, or of the Kad-phises group. I obtained a new gold coin,which was stolen, and one of silver, whichwas new, on which Professor Wilson willremark at some future opportunity.
. 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. y letter to Murad Beg, were BACTRIAN COINS OBTAINED. 225 thought SO unworthy of the occasion, thatthe minister who saw them refused to showeither the presents or the letter to hismaster. I procured a great number of coins atKabul, chiefly Bactrian, or of the Kad-phises group. I obtained a new gold coin,which was stolen, and one of silver, whichwas new, on which Professor Wilson willremark at some future opportunity. A place called Rustums well, intowhich he is said to have been thrownafter his assassination, is about fourteenmiles from Kabul. It is to be found nearthe southern end of the plain of ChaharDeh, in the direction of Logur. Mr. Mas-son received his information from a Gueber,or fire-worshipper, who had come fromPersia on a pilgrimage to the place, andwho spoke of its identity as being beyond Q 226 rustums well. a doubt. We contrived, however, not tofind it, and returned to Kabul after a veryfatiguing ride; and as I was to depart ina day or two, I did not make a oate leading into the fort and town of attok, looking west. CHAPTER IX. The Author quits Kabul—Different Routes—Sei Baba—Barik Ab—Jeg Delik—Arrival at Tatung—Jelala-bad—The Sufyd Koh — Kaffiristan—Manners of theKaffir People—Account of a Seor-posh Kaffir in Kabul—Dwellings of the Kaffir Race—Arrival at Peshawur—Reach Lahore—Khuruk Sing—No Nehal Sing—The Gurus or Priests—The Fakir Azij-ud-Dyn—OtherCharacters at the Court of Runjit—The Three Rajahs—Runjit Sings Person—Introduction—Runjits No-tions of Physic—Military Display and Magnificence ofRunjit. On the twenty-first day of October, 1836,I quitted Kabul by the Peshawur-road, and Q 2 228 ARRIVE AT SEI BABA. slept at the Nawabs castle of half-way we passed an old bridgeover the Logur river, which for
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