Identifier: personalnarrativ00vign (find matches)
Title: A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed: with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Vigne, Godfrey Thomas, 1801-1863
Subjects: Russians -- Asia, Central Afghanistan -- Description and travel Punjab (India) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : G. Routledge
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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robber, he might have been bribed and flattered, by the honour of re- 60 THE TUKT-I-SULIMAN. receiving a Feringi. It might have been in my power to have asked a boon for him at the hands of Dost Mahomed Khan, or the Nawab of Dhera. But the inhabitants of these mountains, throughout their whole extent, own little authority but those of their mullahs, who are supposed to decide with honour, even amongst thieves. The Tukt-i-Suliman, from the plains, appears to be a serrated ridge, mural and perpendicular near the top, shaped somewhat like a horse-shoe,with a circular end to the north. It rises much above any other mountains in sight. The Lohanis say it is higher than any hill between Derabund and Kabul. The loftiest part is to the north-west; and as it sinks a little on the north-east quarter, thed ouble ridge is discernible from the latter place. Derabund being about seven hundred feet above the level of the sea, as far as I can trust the measurement that I ventured to make from the plains, I should
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Caption: View of the Tukt-I-Suliman Mountain with part of the Lohani camp at Derabund - HEIGHT OF THE MOUNTAIN. 61 estimate the height of the ridge to be about nine thousand feet more. Dark and finely pencilled lines were visible for about two-thirds of the height of the ridge. These, when seen through a glass, proved to be rows of fir-trees, waving as they projected or receded, with the ravines and banks on its side; a few only were growing on the sheltering crevices upon the summit, which, in the distance, appeared to be of a bare, light-coloured, grey rock. I was told, that on the top, there was a holy stone or rock, the seat of a Mussulman Fakir, whose name it bears ; but I venture to doubt the story. My inquiries for natural curiosities were not wholly unsuccessful. Ameer Khan sent into the mountains for some mineral liquor, which he told me was collected by dipping cotton into the places where it oozed through the ground. I thought immediately that it S2 MUMIAI, was water which had passed through a bed of mumiai, the asphaltum so well known in India, by the natives,

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