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Journal kept while Travelling in Seistan. By the late Capt. Edward 

 Conolly. 



I left Herat on the 11th of August 1839 in progress to Seistan. AH 

 Leave Herat. the P a P ers and credentials with which I had been 



furnished by H. M. Shah Shooja and Mr. Macnagh- 

 ten having been stolen from me near Herat, Major Todd wrote out 

 Papers stolen. a new Kst of instructions for my guidance, and 



Appendix 1. procured letters of introduction to the chiefs, through 



whose country I should pass, from H. M. Shah Kamraun and his 

 Letters of intro- Vuzeer Yar Mahomed Khan. He also gave me 

 ductl0n ' letters from himself to the several chiefs. 



The vuzeer appointed two persons of influence and respectability 

 to accompany me into Seistan, or as far as I might judge con- 

 venient ; they were to receive no fixed salary ; but I promised to 

 Escort. reward them according to their services and utility. 

 Both were accompanied by a few horsemen. 



I had also as an escort, an Ishaukzye, named Sultan Khan, with 

 six horsemen, who had been made over to me at Candahar by H. M. 

 Shah Shooja. 



The vuzeer sent me before I started a handsome horse, and what 



was more valuable, one of the five mules which were captured from the 



Persians during the siege. This animal was worth at even Herat 360 Rs. 



We reached Subzawar on the evening of the 15th; when about a mile 



from the town, we were met by a messenger from the governor 



(Syed Mahomed, a son of the vuzeer Yar Mahomed 

 ouozawar. 



Khan,) who conducted us to a garden house, which 



had been prepared for our reception. On reaching this, we found 

 seated, waiting for us, a Persian gentleman, a sort of mentor to the 

 young lord ; the Sheeghaussee, and several other well dressed persons, 

 who repeated " You are welcome, you are very welcome," a hundred 

 times ; a zeafut followed of forty sheep, and attah, barley and ghee suffi- 

 cient for my whole camp for six days. Till late at night, message after 

 message came from the sirdar to inquire if I was tired, if my brains 

 were clear. 



