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Travels in Bokhara: Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia. Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore. Performed under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India in 1831, 1832, 1833.

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Singerman ID#supp1192

Burnes, Alexander. Travels in Bokhara: Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia. Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore. Performed under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India in 1831, 1832, 1833. Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart & Co., 1835. 2 vols.

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Vol. 2, chap. 5, is devoted, in part, to the author’s meeting, while in Kabul, with Joseph Wolff, the converted Jew and missionary. Burnes also introduces the Afghans and the issue of their supposed Jewish origin. Rinderknecht 30739.