1 CONDUCT TO CHRISTIANS. ^
2 emmKlOM) hoping on aoeount of the superior truth ^bemalF, to van-
3 f* qukh til in die auL Being Sonnee Muhomedani (in /cpnfonnily
4 widithelWlny «ndTirtin» and Anbi* and hoildtng tbe-Pdniaof
5 f a« nided)i thejr nftam fiom woth. degraes of animoaity aa mij^
6 ^ urge th«a to their own destmcdon or extiipatkm. That they hold
7 M didridigion to be the beat ia undoubtedlj not thebfindt»tfae^ being
8 MeAj initiated to imi^ne so. Howmr, tlie a|firit of toleratkm,
9 ^ amiog to philanthiopy, doea not a little actuate than* (though at
10 fimt thej mlglit with to Mahomedanlge all mm)f Ibr many of tbmn
11 « ne iMrtatnly.fiee^ liberal, and toiatating.'* *
12 * Mr. Duriv wa» a iwtive ui' Ueiigal, tlie wn of an Kiigli«hiaau, by an Lidiau motlier.
13 Ite had been employed as s compounder of mediciiKS, -in diflferent tf^MDMoin; Ixit, nmm
14 yean he was adzed with a great desire of traTelling, and (after wandering some time in
15 India), he croiMd the iiidu% witboot a ^urthing in his poawsaion ; and travelled through
16 ihe A%luHiii oonntrj in lihe duuraeter of « Maliomedan, with the intention of proceeding
17 to Bagdad. He went by Caubul to OmmUmt, resided some IMNttlM in each of tlioee
18 cities, and at leiifjth returned by the wmp ronte to Tneiin. He came to Pooiu! in iHi a,
19 aud pre«2Uttxl hiuiself at my door in rugs, und witlt little about him that promiaed iiiucii m-
20 foramdon. I had, by this thnei flmahnl my collecttans, and made up uxy mind on mmt
21 •^n^ijnrt^ rrlnting to thr Xfrvliuins. But I had not eeen the wost of the country: nnd,
22 though I had received dilatled accpunts of the whole of A^jhaunistaun from natives of
23 dut kingdom, y et their notion* were likely to diffinr frcnn mine. It was probable, that they
24 m^^t OQMider that as refined, which I should have thought rude ; and I was in want of
25 some to wliit fi T m'li'bt refer their pictures. A man, who Imd seen Atghaiinistunn,
26 with liie uotiuiis ut an iutgUshman} v*ua therdure a great actjuiiiitioii, and one wliicii i
27 ■CMvdy hoped to htm obtained.
28 Witli all Mr. Foster's merit, his account did not answer my piirpo r. I To travelled
29 with caravans during the ni^t ; saw little of the country he passed through ; and had no
30 cominunirarion with the inhabitants, except in towns ; and, mm therv, faia interoourae waa
31 restrained fay the alarm so natural to a meat who has entered on an untried iiilwaitlin The
32 aame unca^ine*-! mny, pcrlmps, have given n colour to the objects whirli ho -mw; and his
33 views must uodoul)t have been oilected by the hardsliips ut the mode ui traveitmg he un-
34 dertook, to which, ftoin hia rank in Itfe^ he ooidd have faaoi bat little accustomed.
35 ISfr. Diirio, on the other hand, had lic-n i!sr>d yovrrtv; •.w.d. a lie ti- ivt llfd 'flaurely
36 and almost aione^ and lodged everywhere with the people of the country, he could acanie
37 Ulof knofwing ^eir real character and sitaatian. As soon as I lad diacovered hii story,
38 and before I had any conversation with him on liis travels, I requeatad him to conunit his
39 af1vfnt'!rf>^ nnd opinions on the Afghann country to writing. It gave me real satisfaction
40 to hnd tiicm entirely coincide with my^own ; and, I cannot but consider the agreement
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