CONTENTS. Page. MR MASSON'S PAPERS ON AFFGHANISTAN, &C. &C. ART. 1.-Narrative of a Journey from Ták in Dáman to Peshawer, ... ... ... ... ... II.-Narrative of a passage through the Pass of Khaibar, communicat- ing between the plain of Pesháwer and the valley of Jelálábad... V.-Narrative of Adventures in a Journey from Kándahár to Shikár- VII.-Notice on the Countries west of the Indus from Dára Ghází PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER, 1840. PAPERS ON AFGHANISTAN, CONTAINING THE NARRATIVE OF JOURNEYS PERFORMED IN THAT AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRIES, BETWEEN 1827 AND 1830, &c. &c. By C. MASSON, ESQ. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. [The following documents are part of a series deposited in 1829 with the late Colonel David Wilson, then Resident in the Persian Gulf. That respected gentleman forwarded them to the Bombay Government. A copy of the series was presented to the Bombay Geographical Society, under a request that they should not be published without the author's consent. In 1838, the Society did me the honor to intimate their wish to publish them. I would have willingly acceded, but that I was aware, the documents, (never written under the notion that they would have been thought worthy of being transmitted to the Government, or otherwise made use of,) were so loosely prepared, that I felt a delicacy in presenting them to public notice, in the shape they were in. On my reaching Bombay the present year, the Society were pleased to renew their wish, and as I was afforded the opportunity of revising the papers, I had great satisfaction in accepting the proposition. It is right to observe that the labours of revision have been confined to the removal of statements, my subsequent knowledge taught me to be erroneous, to the insertion of a few additional remarks, and to the reduction to an uniform standard of the nomenclature of persons and places which was sadly neglected in the original papers. Bombay 5th June 1841, CHARLES MASSON.] 1 |