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ARRIVAL IN BOKHARA.
CHAT. VIII.
a camel is broken and disturbed. Our water had
often been bad, and our food chiefly consisted of
hard biscuit. All these inconveniences were, how-
ever, drawing to a close; and, before we had
reached the gates of Bokhara, they had given rise
to reflections of a more pleasing nature. At the
outset of our journey we used to look forward with
some anxiety to the treatment we might experience
in that city; and, indeed, in many of the then re-
mote places which we had already passed. As we
advanced, these apprehensions had subsided, and
we now looked back with surprise at the vast ex-
panse of country which we had traversed in safety.
Bokhara, which had once sounded as so distant
from us, was now at hand, and the success which
had hitherto attended our endeavours gave us every
hope of bringing the journey to a happy termin-
ation. With these feelings, we found ourselves at
the gates of this eastern capital, an hour after sun-
rise, on the 27th of June ; but there was nothing
striking in the approach to Bokhara. Though the
country is rich, it is flat, and the trees hide the
walls and mosques till close upon it. We entered
with the caravan, and alighted in a retired quarter
of the city, where our messenger had hired a house.
ARRIVAL IN BOKHARA.
CHAT. VIII.
a camel is broken and disturbed. Our water had
often been bad, and our food chiefly consisted of
hard biscuit. All these inconveniences were, how-
ever, drawing to a close; and, before we had
reached the gates of Bokhara, they had given rise
to reflections of a more pleasing nature. At the
outset of our journey we used to look forward with
some anxiety to the treatment we might experience
in that city; and, indeed, in many of the then re-
mote places which we had already passed. As we
advanced, these apprehensions had subsided, and
we now looked back with surprise at the vast ex-
panse of country which we had traversed in safety.
Bokhara, which had once sounded as so distant
from us, was now at hand, and the success which
had hitherto attended our endeavours gave us every
hope of bringing the journey to a happy termin-
ation. With these feelings, we found ourselves at
the gates of this eastern capital, an hour after sun-
rise, on the 27th of June ; but there was nothing
striking in the approach to Bokhara. Though the
country is rich, it is flat, and the trees hide the
walls and mosques till close upon it. We entered
with the caravan, and alighted in a retired quarter
of the city, where our messenger had hired a house.