CHAPTER V. 
THE INVASION OF THE AFGHANS IN HINDOSTAN, 
WITH THE CONQUESTS AND ESTABLISHMENT 
OF THE MAHOMEDANS, 
IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF TI1E HINDOO EMPIRE: 
A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FOLLOWERS OF THE 
ARABIAN PROPHET, 
AND PARTICULARLY OF THOSE SETTLED ON THE 
ISLAND OF BOMBAY. 
“ Every writer of travels should consider, that like all other authors, he undertakes either 
“ to instruct or please ; or to mingle pleasure with instruction. He that instructs, must offer 
e( to the mind something to be imitated, or something to be avoided; he that pleases, must 
“ offer new images to his reader, and enable him to form a tacit comparison of his own state 
“ with that of others,” Dr. Johnson. 
