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WESTERN H 1 N D O O S T A N. 



Tamerlane 



THERE. 



Marco PoLQ 



THERE. 



Indus con- 

 tinued. 



Mr. I^'orster's 

 Journey. 



quercd K/jan and his gallant fon. From that time this happy 

 valley enjoyed the moll: perfect tranquillity. 



That ' devoiiring princt;,' as Tamer/ane was called by the 

 Hindoos, encamped at a place called Ge^ban, on the frontiers of 

 Cajkmere. During his Jlay in that delicious country, he feems 

 to have forgot his cruelty, and left without doing any injury 

 to the innocent inhabitants *. This fair gem is at prei'ent poi- 

 feffed by Titnur Shah, fucceiibr to Ahmed Abdalla late king of 

 Candabar. 



Marco Polo, in his travels over the eaft, between the years 

 1271 and 1295, vifited Cafimere, which he calls Cbejimur. He 

 agrees, in feveral refpedts, with the account given by Abul-fazul 

 and Bernier. Mentions that the inhabitants have a language 

 of their own ; that they are idolaters ; that they are very fuper- 

 flitious : and defcribes their hermit?, and the powers they had 

 of raifing tempeils, and darkening the very air t. 



I REJOIN the Indus at the mouth of the Chenaub. A little 

 higher, on the weft fide, it receives the Lucca, an obfcure river, 

 which flows from the north-welt, rifing in the kingdom of 

 Candabar. It is the only one which falls into the Indus in all 

 the extent of the weftern fide. Above that, on the fame fide, 

 is the Co'u:, or Copbenes, which leads to Gbiz-ni and to Baniia, 

 at the foot of the Paropamyfan Caucafus -, beyond that we 

 pafs the mouth of the Kameby or Guraus, which flows from 

 Cabul. The principal places in the vicinity of thefe rivers 

 have already been noticed. 



I NOW return to Attock, where the river affames the name of 

 that city, till it reaches the conflux of the Chenaub, below 



* Cherefiddin's Life of Timur-Bec, Eng. Tranf. ii. p. 95, 96. 

 t Voiages de Marc Polo, in Bergeron's Colledions, p. 30. 



Moultan, 



