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 3) (London, 1835)

274; SUMMARY ON CABOOL. book n.

in possession of the most important position in
Asia, as regards the protection of British India.
Had circumstances brought us into an alliance with
Cabool, instead of Persia, we might have now
possessed more trusty and useful allies, nearer
home, than we can boast of in that country. We
also should have never incurred a tenth of the
expenditure, which has been so freely lavished in
Persia.

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