Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3) / Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833

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The narrative recounts a voyage up the Indus and an overland journey through Afghanistan into Central Asia and Persia, blending travel diary, topographical surveying, and political observation. It provides detailed route descriptions, maps, and plates, records encounters with local rulers and tribes, and describes cities, markets, costumes, coins, and antiquities such as monumental rock sculptures. Practical matters of travel, navigation, and surveying recur alongside reflections on customs, administration, and the challenges of crossing deserts and mountain passes, offering a systematic field account intended for both geographical and diplomatic audiences.

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THE MAP OF CENTRAL ASIA AND THE INDUS.

On my return to Europe, I gave my original manuscript surveys, protractions, and the whole of the observations which I had made during a period of nine years, while employed in different surveys throughout Asia, together with such other authentic documents as I had collected, to Mr. John Arrowsmith.[1] He has embodied these in a large and comprehensive map, to illustrate this work; combining, at the same time, the latest and best information on the various countries within the limits of the map. The task has been most laborious; but the accuracy with which it has been performed will, I am sure, entitle him to the high approbation of the public: since this map throws a new light on the geography of this portion of the globe. It is due to Mr. Arrowsmith to state, that this map has been engraved at his own expense, and is now published, in the most public-spirited manner, at his own risk.

London, June, 1834.