40 AN ACCOUNT OF TWO FAKEERS, 



two months, and who then procured him a pafTage to 

 Cochin, on the coaft of Malabar, up whirh he pro- 

 ceeded by land ; particularizing, with a wonderful te- 

 nacity of memory, the feveral towns and places through 

 which he pafTcd, with their intermediate diftances : 

 but as thefe are already well enough defcribed in our 

 own books of geography, his account of them need 

 not be here inferted. 



VI. In this direction he proceeded along the coaft 

 to Bombay, and pafTed on to Dwarac Tatta Hingu- 

 laj, or Henglaz, and through Multan, beyond the 

 Attock, whence he changed his route to the eaftward, 

 and arrived at Hurdewar, where the Ganges enters the 

 plains of Hinduftan ; and from that place of Hindu 

 devotion he again departed in a wefterly direction, 

 through the upper parts of the Punjab to Cabul, and 

 thence to Bamian, where he mentions with admiration 

 the number of ftatues that (till exift, though the 

 place itfelf has been long deferred by its inhabitants. 



VII. In the courfe of his rambles in this quarter of 

 the country, he fell in with the army of Ahmed Shah 

 Abdalli, in the clofe vicinity of Ghizni ; and that 

 King, having an ulcer in his nofe, confulted our 

 Fakeer, to know if, being an Indian, he could pre- 

 fcribe a remedy for it : on which occafion the latter 

 acknowledged that, having no knowledge of furgery 

 or medicine, he had recourfe to his wits, by infinu- 

 ating to the Prince, that there molt, probably did fub- 

 fift a connexion between the ulcer and his fovereignty, 

 fo that it might not be advifable to feck to get rid of 

 the one, left it mould rifk the lofs of the other ; a fug- 

 geftion that met (he adds) with the approbation of the 

 Prince and his Minifters. 



VIII. Praun 



