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Account (Part II.) of parts of the Cabool and Peshawar Territories, 

 and of Samah, Sudoom, Bunher, Srvah, Deer and Bajour, visited 

 by Mulla Aleem-ulla of Peshawar, in the latter part of the year 

 1837. Arranged and translated by Major R. Leech, C.B. Late 

 Political Agent, Candahar, under whose instructions the Tour 

 was made. 



" Moorcroft, Vigne, Burnes, Masson, Leech, and Wood, had travelled 

 in the country, yet when General Pollock was at Peshawar and the 

 Khyber closed, there was no trustworthy information to be procured 

 regarding the Karifa, (Karapah?) the Abkhanah or the Tirah routes 

 from Peshawar to Jelalabad." — (Recent History of the Panjab, from 

 the Calcutta Review for September 1844.) 



" Of the Kohistan (Eesafzai), my information is, I must confess, 

 very imperfect, and will be here limited to nearly a barren detail of 

 names."— (Captain E. Conolly, Asiatic Society's Journal, No, 105, 

 J 840, page 929.) 



" The much-to-be-regretted death of Doctor Henderson, has deprived 

 us of authentic geographical knowledge respecting the valley of Suhat, 

 Bonier, the valley of the Deer river, and the country of Bajawar." 

 — (Vigne's Cashmeer, Vol. II. page 310, 1842.) 



The author of the Recent History of the Panjab has gone consi- 

 derably out of his way (even to the Haft kotal) to prove that every 

 traveller across the Indus has failed both in his duty to his Govern- 

 ment and to the geographical public, and seems to forget that a 

 London publisher is not always the person to whom a Government 

 servant should send surveys of Military Passes. 



In justice to the late Cabool Misson of 1836-38, (two of whose mem- 

 bers, Burnes and Lord, are dead, and a third, Wood, has retired from the 

 service), I feel it a duty to record that before the advance of the Army 

 into Affghanistan, Government was by the members of the Mission 

 put in possession of surveys (made on horse and camel back) of the 

 Khyber and Bolan Passes, and of that leading from Cabool via Bamian 

 into Turkistan, and of accounts of all the other Passes leading from the 

 Indus into Balochistan and Affghanistan, as well as of those leading 

 from Cabool into Turkistan over the Hindoo Coosh. If the author of 



