Reprint. Special Description Note- This is not a print on demand edition. Care has been taken to enhance and improve the original text whenever possible. Martino Publishing follows the standards of traditional printing and quality is a primary concern. We distinguish ourselves from Print on Demand by our quality controls, paper quality and binding quality. Octavo. Hardcover. v, 282 p. illus., 2 col. fold. Maps in rear pocket. fold. Plan. Calcutta, C.B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press,1860Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett "Joe" Lumsden (November 12, 1821 - August 12, 1896) was a British military officer active in India. In January 1857, after Persia had seized Herat, Major Harry Burnett Lumsden was sent on a delicate mission to Kandahar to make sure that the British subsidy to the amir was duly applied to the payment of troops for the defence of Afghanistan against Persia and, if possible, to advise and assist the amir so far as it could without exciting Afghan jealousy." Cited from Boston Book Company, ILAB listing". This is an account of that mission. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.