1834.] Journal of a Route through the Veziri Country , 175 



Supplementary Indo-Scythic Coins. 

 Fig. 24, Obverse. Bust. Greek legend BACIA.6VC OOH MV KAA<t>ICHC 



Reverse. Standing figure, naked, with three tails ; staff in right-hand — left 

 hand holds a ball — in the left, four-pronged symbol. Legend 

 Pehlevi. 

 This is a representation of the gold medal found in the sepulchral monument of 

 the king at Kabul — on the legend we have besides OOH — the letters probably 

 MV or MT : if these be also numerals, they may express the years of his reign or 

 of his dynasty. 

 Kabul, 28th Nov. 183.3. 



II. — Journal of a Route from Dera Ghazi Khan, through the Veziri Coun- 

 try, to Kabul. By Dr. Martin Honigberger, in a Letter to Captain 

 C. M. Wade, Pol. Agent at Ludiana. Plate XIV. 

 [Read at the Meeting of the 20th March.] 

 The annual kafila of the Lohdnis was very late in assembling at 

 Dtra bend this year. We did not leave that place until the 18th of 

 May, and reached Kabul on the 28th of June. The heat of the weather 

 during our journey was excessive. It was greater than that of Lahor. 

 In tents the thermometer rose to 38 Reaumur. Several persons perished 

 from the effects of the heat, as well as a horse belonging to me. 



It has proved an arduous and fatiguing journey. The road through 

 the hills was extremely difficult, and strewed over with large stones. It 

 was so narrow in some places as not to admit the passage of a loaded 

 camel. They were constantly falling down precipices with their kaja- 

 tvas, and a good deal of property was sacrificed on the road from these 

 accidents. No exertionswere made with success at the time to recover it. 

 On reaching the halting place, people were seen complaining in every 

 direction of the loss of something ; but those who formed the last part of 

 kafila generally collected the property lying on the road, and delivered 

 it to the owners on their arrival. 



From the time we entered the hills, until we reached Demendi, we 

 were in constant alarm of the Veziris. They did not however shew 

 themselves in such force this year as they usually do, yet they did not 

 forego their habitual depredations, and notwithstanding the vigilance of 

 the armed men of our party, who were to be seen flourishing their arms 

 and beating nakaras along the line, the Veziris succeeded in carrying 

 off several camels. Those that they could not take away, they killed on 

 the spot, and made the best of their way to their fastnesses in the hills. 

 At night they would descend and visit our camp, when if they found 

 that our guards were not on the alert, they would steal any property 

 that they could lay their hands on. There was no vestige of population 

 where we were infested by these plunderers, and consequently the mer- 



