Excerpt from Travels Into Bokhara; Being the Account of a Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, Vol. 2 of 3: Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833
Power of Persia over these Tribes. - Koord and other Chiefs. Weakness of the Persian Frontier 389 - 393.
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