1 GHAILAOTUL
2 Persian by Dr. Hunter), to a Moollah who aooompanied me to Cal«
3 cutta, and two years after his return I received a list of queries ad-
4 dre«?sed to the Newtoiiianaun English (Enghsh Newtonians), requir-
5 ing' an explication of some parts 0^ the system wliicii had ftmhflTiMfld
6 the learned at Pe«hawer. ♦
7 Wliile in Calcutta, I carried a great many Afghauns, of all ranks,
8 from Moollahs to grooms, to the arsenal, to visit ships, and to
9 some other sights which were nvw to them, and it was extremely
10 pka:si)ii:'' to see the interest they took In every thing, and the gratifi-
11 oition they received. One of tlu- MuoUaiis, however, wa'^ fjreatly
12 disappointed in not tindjiig the wheel us€?d for boriiiji^ c jinnoa lunied
13 by steam, as he had read in the travels of ei za Aboo Taulib, was
14 the case in England. I have often seen nalis cs oi India at spectacles
15 of the same nature, ami though they always were polite enough to
16 express much admiration, they did it with a calmness that showed
17 how little they were interested, while the questions which they some-
18 times asked, wece of anoih a mtuse as to lecre no doubt that their
19 only object wis to keep up cammadon, f
20 • All oommimieitum with the Afghanm is. rendend agneaUe, by
21 tli0 dq^adflioe wUch can be placed OA what tiiey say. Thoa^lhef
22 tie &r belund Emopeana in madtj, and woukl seldom scruple to
23 deceive bolh in fttetfrmfinti sad praoiina* if llieir own iHtveatweve
24 to be promotod-bf tiieb iSelumesty, yet they hanre not that indilfte«
25 ence to tnOif and that afyle of habitiial and gntoitoiiB ftlsehood
26 which aitoniafaea an European in natives of Indie and Beisis: a mm
27 of the fint notion seems incapable of observing sny thing eoenntlefy»
28 and one of iSbe second4»f deacribing it trnly ; bnt unlem some
29 Set can be diacoveted to TOiaioad' the obaetver, or some mofetvisk is
30 • My own ignorance of the subject, nnd flic difficulty of finding n person here,
31 who is botli a Persian scholar and a jnsthematidani has hitherto preveuuxl iuj_ teflj'
32 ktg Id this paper.
33 t Us Pmfaw are too aeoie nd iBtdi%ent to hnre any of Ai» ■■uMiliillljV iMt
34 lih^ sse too M of diamdm to bs ymj esrisni sbooft olbci nalkini.
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