The volume consists of Enclosures to Despatches to the East India Company Secret Committee from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The despatches themselves are not included in the volume. The enclosures relate to events in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Persia [Iran], particula...
Ink sketch of a fortifiedbuilding somewhere between Kohant [Kohat]and Cabul [Kabul], encountered by the KandaharMission, a British diplomatic mission to Afghanistan in 1857-58.
An Attempt at a Rough Sketch of Kaffiristan from Kaffir Information
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Sketchmap of Kaffiristan [Nuristan] by Peter Stark Lumsden, a member of theKandahar Mission, a British diplomatic mission to Afghanistan. A note on the map states that 'The Cabul [Kabul] River and position of Jelalabad [Jalalabad] etc. are taken from the Surveyor General's Office Map of Afghanist...