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Excerpt from Narrative of a Mission of Bokhara: In the Year 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly
Few words will suffice to lay so simple a story as the causes which led to the production of the Work now before the public. In 1843 I undertook, at the desire of the Stoddart and Conolly Committee, to ascertain the fate of these officers. It will, I trust, appear that I have realized what I then undertook. I claim no further merit than having kept my word to them. They supplied me with pecuniary means to undertake the journey. I have to thank the Foreign Office for furthering the object I had in view, by all points short of making me a British Envoy. The exertions of the Envoy at Teheraun, it will be seen, in procuring a letter from the Shah, saved my life. I owe that, undoubtedly, twice to the friendly power of Persia. It will be further fully apparent, from the letters of Colonel Shell, our Envoy at Teheraun, that he dared not venture on writing to me, since that step would probably have occasioned my death; so that my danger at Bokhara may be distinctly gathered from that circumstance alone.
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