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appurtenances of Khorassan ; Sind, commonly called Tatta, Bikkar, Sigistan as far as 

 Kaiji; Mekran, and that part of Lahore belonging to Tatta, where Arslan Aga landed. 

 From thence begins the length of Hindustan, which extends to the salt sea, where the 

 boundary is formed by the vast province of Bengal bordering on the sea. This extent 

 is so vast, that the merchants who travel each day, can encompass it but in the space of 

 a year or more. The same is its immense breadth, which begins at Cabul and the Indian 

 passes (kutal) ofHindukash; Candahar and Bast Harran are also subjected to this victo- 

 rious empire. It terminates at the Deccan, bordering also on the sea, and its breadth is, 

 like its length, of a year's journey. There are innumerable sipahis and troops, which no 

 other monarch of the world could collect ; huge elephants, and other requisites for the 

 conquest of the world, all subject to the power of the servants of this celestial threshold. 

 The (Ottoman) secretaries were ignorant in what manner such a power should be ad- 

 dressed, and what regard should be paid to such a state. 



The principal object of MIr ZarIf's mission was the purchase of Persian horses ; but 

 the governor of Irak having insisted that such horses were not to be found there,' but 

 should be sought for in Arabia, we shall not henceforth send to IrEk for them, but to 

 Arabia, because the Arabian horses are finer than those of Irak. What his Majesty 

 the successor of the four Khalifs, (the Sultan) has done for the exaltation of the stan- 

 dard of Islam deserves the blessings of God and the Prophet, and of his sainted 

 followers; because the imperial (Ottoman) family has engaged in war with the infidel 

 Franks, and with the innovating redheads. The letters notifying these victories, and 

 written in the style which great men use to write to ministers, which arrived by the 

 above ambassador, opened the gates of amity, and intimated that he should be recog- 

 nized as the envoy of the Sublime Porte. He notified to the sainted mind of his 

 Majesty, what should be done against these vile redheads : namely, that his Majesty 

 the Shah, on one side, and one of his glorious princes— a pearl of the jewelled shrine of 

 fortune, a jewel of the crown of stateliness,— should endeavour to conquer Candahar as 

 well as Khorassan, and drive away these misbelievers, and to clear the rosebed of the 

 Orthodox Sunis from the weeds of this idle heresy; in the same way as had been 

 cleared by religious zeal Bagdad, the burying-place of the guide of all evidence, the 

 reviewer of religious duties, the most glorious chief and leader to truth, the great 

 Imim ; Bagdad, the monumental spot of the president of saints, the traveller in the 

 paths of sanctity, his Holiness Saiyad Abdulkadar Jilani. All this has been related as 

 It happened , and it has been intimated that, with respect to the great distance, another 

 envoy should be sent to transact business. Meanwhile, on the return of the victorious 

 standards from this incomparable country, Kashmir,— to which may be applied the 

 verse of the Koran, "A paradise through which rivers run,"— news arrived at the city 

 of Lahore from Candahar, Sind, Guzerat, Surat, and Canauj, all intimating that, in 

 obedience to the divine decree which prescribes the bounds of existence to every bein- 

 and according to the text, " Every soul must taste of death," the glory of Caesars, the 

 chief of Sultr.ns, had left this inconstant world, obeying the call, " O tranquil soul, re- 

 turn to thy lord ; return well pleased and grateful,"— and had wandered into paradise ; and 



