1 legs, a very comfortable contrivance. During two day.-’, while
2 we stopped (in our way on the left l>- ik of the A moo (OxuS
3 river), I did not stir from this warm hoode; for the knrfje'vahs
4 are ample enough to allow one to keep in them a charcoal fire, as
5 also to perform the required necessities; and the weather was
6 rather disagreeable; rain, wind and snow varying alternately.
7 Thirty pairs of similar kadjevahs, ranged in a square, formed
8 a large.yard. Several of them were filled with slaves (Persians
9 and Hpzarahs). Jn my neighbourhood there was one in which
10 there were four little girls; but as they were carefully watched,
11 it was difficult to get. a sight of them; they were going to
12 Bokhara, to be sold there.
13 The N'awauh lmd made me n present of two ponies, called
14 chargoosh (i.e., four-eared., because of their ears having been
15 slit); and they were of great use to me in the Desert from Cabul
16 to Russia. They instinctively dig up the roots below the snow
17 for food.
18 On my arrival at Bokhara, l delivered the letter of recom¬
19 mendation which I had from the Nnwaub, addressed to the
20 minister floshbegi. His first inquiry was, whether I knew
21 Jussuff WqJff and Alexander Humes ? “ Wolff,” continued he,
22 “was a very good-hearted man: but as for Burnes, he was a
23 deceiver, because he told me, up to the last moment, that his
24 intention was to go to England, via Russia, whereas he returned
25 to Hindustan, eia Khiva." He was convinced that Du rues was
26 a spy, and asked me if I would act as he had clone. 1 wus told
27 that there were bOO Russian slaves at Bokhara, most of them
28 fishermen from the Caspian sea, or prisoners from the frontier.
29 During my four mouths’ stay at Bokhara, a Russian spy, Mon¬
30 sieur 1>——, was also there, whom the governor of Orenburg
31 had sent with presents to the government, and who, although a
32 Frenchman, imitated the musselmnns so well, as not to he recog¬
33 nised ns an European, for he. knew both the Arabic and Persian
34 languages ; but the Nogins (Tartarian mue-Hman under Hu. dan
35 protection) informed against him, and urged his b ing decapitated,
36 lest he should inform against them for haying transgressed the
37 ukase, according to which, no Russian subject was allowed to go