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TRAVELS
INTO
BOKHARA;
&c. &c.
VOL. I.
London:
Printed by A. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.
Drawn by D. Mc. Clise.            Engraved by E. Find.
Costume of Bokhara
London, Published 1834, by John Murray, Albemarle Street.
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TRAVELS
INTO
BOKHARA;
BEING THE ACCOUNT OF
A JOURNEY FROM INDIA TO CABOOL, TARTARY,
AND PERSIA;
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 GOVERNMENTOF INDIA, IN THE YEARS 1831, 1832, AND 1833.
BY
LIEUT. ALEXR BURNES, F.R.S.
OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S SERVICE;
AST POLITICAL RESIDENT IN CUTCH, AND LATE ON A MISSION TOTHE COURT of LAHORE.
----“Per syrtes iter æstuosas,
.... per inhospitalem
Caucasum, vel quæ loca fabulosus
Lambit Hydaspes.”
Hor.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
MDCCCXXXIV.
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THESE
TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA
ARE INSCRIBED
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD WILLIAM CAVENDISH BENTINCK, G.C.B.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA,
&c. &c. &c.
UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES
THEY WERE UNDERTAKEN AND PERFORMED,
BY
HIS LORDSHIP’S MOST OBEDIENT,
FAITHFUL SERVANT,
ALEXR BURNES.

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TO THE READER.
The following volumes contain the Narrativeof my Voyage on the Indus, andsubsequent Journey into Bokhara. I havethrown the Journey into the first two volumes,from its interest being, perhaps,greater than that of the Voyage; and sincethe two subjects, though parts of a whole,are distinct from each other.
                        
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