Travels into Bokhara (Vol. 2 of 3)

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Author

Burnes, Alexander, Sir, 1805-1841

Title

Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 2 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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Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland

Subject

Indus River Valley -- Description and travel

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eBook-No.

64247

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64247

Release Date

January 9, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA; &c. &c.
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.Untitled
8. 8.NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER XII. JOURNEY IN THE DESERT OF THE TOORKMUNS.
9. 9.CHAP. XIII. CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNEY IN THE TOORKMUN DESERT.
10. 10.CHAP. XIV. KHORASAN.
11. 11.CHAP. XV. JOURNEY AMONG THE TOORKMUNS OF THE CASPIAN. — THE TUKA TOORKMUNS TO THE KOORDS. — THE KOORDS TO THE TUKA TOORKMUNS.
12. 12.CHAP. XVI. JOURNEY THROUGH PERSIA.—CONCLUSION OF THE NARRATIVE.
13. 13.Untitled
14. 14.NOTICE REGARDING THE MAP OF CENTRAL ASIA.
15. 15.BOOK I. — CHAPTER I. AN ACCOUNT of THE KINGDOM OF BOKHARA.
16. 16.CHAP. II. THE RIVER OXUS, OR AMOO; WITH SOME NOTICE OF THE SEA OF ARAL.
17. 17.CHAP. III. ON THE VALLEY OF THE UPPER OXUS; BEING A NOTICE OF KOONDOOZ, BUDUKHSHAN, AND THE KAFFIR COUNTRY, WITH THE ADJACENT TERRITORIES.
18. 18.CHAP IV. ON THE REPUTED DESCENDANTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE VALLEY OF THE OXUS AND INDUS.
19. 19.CHAP. V. ON THE SOURCES OF THE INDUS.
20. 20.CHAP. VI. NOTICE ON YARKUND, AND ITS INTERCOURSE WITH PEKIN, BOKHARA, AND TIBET.
21. 21.CHAP. VII. ON THE MOUNTAINS OF HINDOO KOOSH.
22. 22.CHAP. VIII. TOORKMANIA, OR THE COUNTRY OF THE TOORKMUNS.
23. 23.CHAP. IX. ON THE INROADS OF THE TARTARS; WITH A NOTICE OF THE TRIBES IN TOORKISTAN.
24. 24.CHAP. X. ON THE HORSES OF TOORKISTAN.
25. 25.BOOK II. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COUNTRIES LYING BETWEEN INDIA AND THE CASPIAN SEA. — CHAPTER I. ON THE PUNJAB, AS RULED BY RUNJEET SING.
26. 26.CHAP. II. SKETCH OF EVENTS IN AFGHANISTAN SINCE THE YEAR 1809.
27. 27.CHAP. III. THE CHIEFSHIP OF PESHAWUR.
28. 28.CHAP. IV. THE CHIEFSHIP OF CABOOL.
29. 29.CHAP. V. ON THE AFFAIRS OF WESTERN AFGHANISTAN.
30. 30.CHAP. VI. SUMMARY OF THE AFFAIRS OF CABOOL.
31. 31.CHAP. VII. ON THE POWER OF KOONDOOZ.
32. 32.CHAP. VIII. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF BOKHARA.
33. 33.CHAP. IX. ON THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY POWER OF BOKHARA.
34. 34.CHAP. X. ON THE STATE OF KHIVA, OR ORGUNJE.
35. 35.CHAP. XI. ON THE NORTH-EASTERN FRONTIERS OF PERSIA, AND THE COUNTRY OF THE KOORDS AND TOORKMUNS.
36. 36.BOOK III. ON THE COMMERCE OF CENTRAL ASIA. — CHAPTER I. ON THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE PUNJAB, AND THE ADVANTAGES OF OPENING THE NAVIGATION OF THE INDUS.
37. 37.CHAP. II. ON THE COMMERCE OF CABOOL.
38. 38.CHAP. III. ON THE COMMERCE AND FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS OF BOKHARA AND CENTRAL ASIA.
39. 39.CHAP. IV. NOTICE ON THE TRADE OF PERSIA.
40. 40.Untitled
41. 41.Untitled
42. 42.PROFESSOR WILSON’S NOTES. — MR. JAMES PRINSEP’S NOTES.
43. 43.FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note

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