Burnes, Alexander: Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33 (Band 1) (London, 1835)

NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.

In the year 1830, a ship arrived at Bombay, with
a present of five horses from the King of Great
Britain to Maharaja Runjeet Sing, the Seik chieftain
at Lahore, accompanied by a letter of friendship
from his majesty's minister* to that prince. At
the recommendation of Major-General Sir John
Malcolm, then governor of Bombay, I had the ho-
nour of being nominated by the Supreme Govern-
ment of India to proceed on a mission to the Seik
capital, with these presents, by way of the river
Indus. I held at that time a political situation in
Cutch, the only portion of the British dominions in
India which borders on the Indus.

The authorities, both in England and India, com-
templated that much information of a political and
geographical nature might be acquired in such a
journey. The knowledge which we possessed of

Lord Ellenborough, then President of the India Board.
vol. I. b