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 2) (London, 1835)

NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER L

LAHORE.

In the end of December, 1831,1 had the honour to
obtain the final sanction of the Governor-general
of India to proceed to Central Asia. I received my
passports from his lordship at Delhi on the 23d of
that month, and proceeded by express to Lodiana
on the frontiers, where I had the pleasure of meet-
ing my fellow-traveller Mr. James Gerard, _ of the
Bengal army. We here experienced many acts of
kindness and assistance from Capt. C. M. Wade,
the political agent, whose good offices I have to ac-
knowledge with gratitude. The society of this, the
most remote station of British India, also evinced
an interest in our welfare which was truly gratifying.
We took leave of it at a convivial party given for
the occasion on the 2d of January, and on the fol-
lowing day bade a long farewell to such scenes, and
plunged into the solitude of an Indian desert. We
took the route that leads along the left bank of

vol. ii. b