1 CANDAHAR.
2 unmber of inhabitants it contains. I haye always heard that Can-
3 dahar was larger than Heraut ; but Captain Christie, who resided for
4 a month at Tleraut, consider'^ the number'^ of" its inhabitants to be
5 one hinKln d thousand, a number which i caunot reconcile With the
6 comparisoa I have heard between Catidahar and Peshawer. *
7 . The form of Candahar is an oblong square, and as it was built, at
8 once, on a fixed piuii, it has the advantage of great regularity. Four
9 long and broad bazars meet in the middle oi' the town, and at the
10 place of tfaeir junction, there is a dmdar space of f^M>ut forty ot
11 fifty yank in diameter, covend wkha dome^ into' vludi all the finir
12 staOBts kad* * -
13 . -This place ia called the Chaiinoo; it'i6 stnioiUMled.irilit sfanps^aBd
14 msty be coDaideied as the pnUie market-place ; it is thace that yxo-
15 dmt^&om are made^ and that the bodies of crimidala are e^qpoaed to
16 the mem of the popidaoeb Put of the aid||oining bMar is 'also
17 coveied in» as is usual in Persia, and in the west of .thit A^i^fmwi
18 dominions.
19 The four bazsis axe eacli about fifty yards broad ; the sides consist
20 of shops of the name size and plan, in front of which runs an.Wtt»
21 form veranda for the whole length of tlic street. Hiese shops are
22 only one stoi y liigh, and the lofty houses of the (<»wn ore seen over
23 them. Tlicre arc gates issuing into the country at the end of all
24 the bazars, exce]it the northern one, where 8t»nda the iiing'.s palace
25 focing the Cliaur.soo.
26 Its external appearance is described as not veinarkable, but it con-
27 tains several court§, many buildings, and a piivate garden. All the
28 bazars, except that leading to the palace, were at one time planted
29 * I fed nndigra«erlMrflstionln«myd[|Qf Ilinvto
30 frm. than in my accmtnt': of the countn-; the Ttibabhants of the cx>uiitry aro less given to
31 fiiliiehood, oQil a coiapaiisoa with neighbouring regiooa renders it eaaier to detect them,
32 vlwn di^«McBipaMdtoaaggnite} nor is it totuj tn imrnt li riniMirtimf ■ mil nf
33 the produce and dwnfller «f • <iuwul<y» M fO — NM^ tad iMj^rfi^ dhe ifyi^
34 coDoe of a town.
35 • Digitized by Googl