Selections from the travels and journals preserved in the Bombay secretariat
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Selections from the travels and journals preserved in the Bombay secretariat
Printed at the Government Central Press, 1906
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Summary:Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat is a compilation of 14 documents, previously unpublished, relating to journeys taken or documented by officials of the East India Company. Most of the trips described were to and from cities in Afghanistan, Persia (present-day Iran), and Central Asia, but a few were by the Indian Navy to places on the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula. The documents, from the archives of the East India Company in Bombay (present-day Mumbai), were compiled by George William Forrest, the former director of records of the Imperial Record Office at Calcutta (present-day Kolkata). Forrest provides a lengthy introduction to the volume, in which he writes that these "tales of the exploits of the soldiers and sailors of the East India Company and these plain narratives of facts show that in searching the most opposite corners of the Eastern World they faced the dangers and distresses which beset them with calm courage and made good use of the opportuni
Includes index
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- Introduction
- Itinerary from Yezd to Herát and from Herát to Kábul viâ Kandáhár
- Report of journey from Herát to Simla, by Major D'Arcy Todd
- Notice on Herát
- Narrative of a journey from Khelát on Sonmeani, 1839, by Captain Outram
- Account of an embassy to the king of Persia from the ameer of Kábul in 1837
- Letters from Major Todd
- Letters from Lieut. Pottinger
- Masson's journals
- Narrative of journey from Tower of Ba-'l-Haff to the ruins of Nakab-al-Hajar, 1835
- Account of excursion in Hadramaut, by Adolphe baron Wrede
- Memoir of the south coast of Arabia from entrance of the Red Sea to Misenat, 1839
- Narrative of journey from Mokhá to San'á by northern route, in 1836
- Narrative of journey to Shoa
- Index