...daily transpiring, I lit- Chief of Kabul had come to Kabul, as a commercial agent, was without any political instructions. He could promise nothing....languages, the latter of which was translated by Mohan Lai, who gives in a few lines the substance of the more important one, the letter from the emperor.*...

...him, and telling him that after this, I knew ' not what might happen, and it was now a ncck-and-ncck race ' between Russia and us." The letters of which...languages, the latter of which was translated by Mohan Lai, who gives in a few lines the substance of the more important one, the letter from the emperor.*...

...myself. I, of course, received him, and asked him to dinner. This is not the best of it. The Ameer came over to me sharp, and offered to do as I like,...was now a neck-andneck race between Russia and us ; and if his Lordship would hear reason, he would forthwith send agents to Bokhara, Herat, Candahar,...

...myself. I, of course, received him, and asked him to dinner. This is not the best of it. The Ameer came over to me sharp, and offered to do as I like,...was now a neck-andneck race between Russia and us; and if his Lordship would hear reason, he would forthwith send agents to Bokhara, Herat, Candahar,...

...sharp ; and I sent an express at once to my Lord A., with a confidential letter to the Governor-General himself, bidding him look what his predecessors had...was now a neck-andneck race between Russia and us; and if his Lordship would hear reason, he would forthwith send agents to Bokhara, Herat, Candahar,...

...and I sent an express at once to my Lord Auckland, with a confidential letter to the Governor-General himself, bidding him look what his predecessors had...this I knew not what might happen, and it was now a neck and neck course between Russia and us, and if his Lordship would hear reason he would forthwith...

...sharp; and I sent an express at once to my Lord A., with a confidential letter to the Governor-General himself, bidding him look what his predecessors had...was now a neck-and-neck race between Russia and us ; and if his Lordship would hear reason, he would forthwith send agents to Bokhara, Herat, Candahar,...

...him look what his predecessors had " brought upon him, and telling him that after this, I knew " iiot what might happen, and it was now a neck-and-neck...Russia and us." The letters of which Vickovich was the bearer, like those brought by Burnes, were purely of a commercial tendency. They were written in the...

...sent an express off at once to my Lord Auckland with a confidential letter to the Governor-General himself, bidding him look what his predecessors had...it was now a neck-and-neck race between Russia and ourselves, and, if his Lordship would hear reason, he would forthwith send agents to Bokhara, Herat,...