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NARRATIVE OF VARIOUS JOURNEYS IN

BALOCHISTAN,

AFGHANISTAN,

THE PANJAB, & KALAT, Uuring a Utesitience in tfjos? (Kountiies.

TO WHICH

IS

ADDED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE INSURRECTION AT KALAT, AND A MEMOIR ON EASTERN BALOCHISTAN.

By CHARLES MASSON, Esq. ILLUSTRATED WITH A LARGE MAP AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

0 —. RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

I3tt6ItM)cr tn ©rtftaarn Id 1844.

Co VIM

JHajrKty.

PREFACE.

It is hoped that the melancholy interest con¬

ferred by events upon the countries bordering on the Indus, may justify the publication of these Volumes. Should the information afforded increase the stock of knowledge already possessed, my labours may prove neither ill-timed nor unprofitable. Ac¬ counts of several of the journeys, &c., performed prior to 1831, differing in no essential manner from those now given, found their way to the govern¬ ment-offices both in India and England. In the course of the work I have expressed regret that this should have been the case, but only under the apprehension that they may have been made to subserve the interested schemes of artful and de¬ signing men,—a purpose for which most certainly they were never written. The late Sir Alexander Burnes, in a letter of 9th March, 1836, wrote to me:—“ For some years past I have often crossed your path and I have never done so without finding the impressions which I had imbibed regarding your talents, your honour, and your zeal strengthened.” I quote this passage

V]

PREFACE.

merely to show that while Sir Alexander could privately acknowledge that he had “ often crossed my path,