Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1838 - Asia |
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Abdoollah Khan Affghaunistaun Affghauns Ameers army Attock Azeem Khan bajra Baugh Baurickzye Belooches Bokhara British brother called camels Candahar Cashmere Caubul chief cultivated Dauder Doorraunee Dost Mohummud Khan ducats Elphinstone endeavour enemy Furrah Futteh Khan Girishk Hadjee Ferooz Hâkim halted head Helmund Heraut hills Hindoo Hindoostân horses Hossein hundred India Indus Inshallah jawarree journey Kamraun khail Khan's Khirepore Khiva Khojeh Amraun Khorassaun King Korân Kullah latter Mahmood matchlock Meer merchants Meshed miles Mohummudan Moollâ mountains Munsoor Nadir Shah night Noorzyes Oxus party Persian person Peshower possessed prince province Punjaub Quetta rebel river road rode Rohree Runjeet rupees Russians sent Shâdeezye Shah's Shahpussund Sheah Shikarpore Sikhs Sinde Sirdars Soonnee stream Suddozye sword Syud Daoud Syud Muheen Shah Syuds of Pisheen thousand told took town trade tribe troops valley village Vuzeer Zemaun
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Page 313 - And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him : and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart ? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand.
Page 148 - Verily we sent down the Koran in the night of al Kadr.1 And what shall make thee understand how excellent the night or al Kadr is ? The night of al Kadr is better than a thousand months. Therein do the angels descend, and the spirit Gabriel also, by the permission of their Lord, with his decrees concerning every matter. It is peace, until the rising of the morn.
Page 184 - While many of his tribe slumber'd around : And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
Page 244 - Pluto, is a dark-green man, clothed in red, with inflamed eyes; he sits on a buffalo, has a crown on his head, and holds in his right hand a club, with which he drives out the soul from the body, and punishes the wicked. This is his form of terror, as king of the souls of the dead ; but he is also worshipped in a form less terrific, which he is said to assume when he passes a sentence of happiness on the meritorious.
Page 238 - ... true Persian, yet I think that I should recognize him again in any part of his own country. He had travelled through Toorkestaun, part of Affghaunistaun, and the Punjaub, and was full of very entertaining anecdote relating to his travels. From the little he had seen of English society at the outposts of Loodeeana, he undertook to describe the ways and means of the Feringees who ruled over India, and if his remarks were severe, they were very amusingly made. '
Page 63 - The shepherds of Toba," as Conolly was informed, " pitch their camps together, and entertain each other for joy of the increase which the new year brought to them ; feasting on lamb and fresh curds, and all the varieties which their wives made with milk; hunting with hawks and greyhounds during the day, or, perhaps, following a wolf or a hyena to his lair and tying him there ; while at night they would sit out late in social parties, conversing and telling stories, or dancing the attun.
Page 2 - No drains having been contrived to carry off the rain which falls within the walls, it collects and stagnates in ponds which are dug in different parts of the city. The residents cast out the refuse of their houses into the streets, and dead cats and dogs are commonly seen lying upon heaps of the vilest filth.
Page 25 - Take a new Nail, and make the Gum bleed with it, and then drive it into an Oak, This did Cure William Neal, Sir William Neal's Son, a very stout Gentleman, when he was almost Mad with the Pain, and had a mind to have Pistoll'd himself.
Page 332 - the Affghans could put beyond reach, or ' destroy, the partial supplies that might otherwise be obtained ;' — that they ' have little to gain, and much to fear, from letting ' the Russians enter their country ; that they are natural enemies ' to the nations by whom the Russians must in the first instance ' be assisted, whether Oosbeg or Persian ; and that they more...
Page 15 - I need not add a word more against his private character:—as a king he has behaved unwisely and ill, for he has ruined trade by heavy imposts, and no man living within the influence of his authority dares avow himself possessed of wealth. " The following anecdote which was related to me by several different inhabitants of Heraut, will enable the reader to appreciate the character of the heir to the Affghaun monarchy. A merchant of the...