A den of Beloochees is exhibited in the fore-ground, which overhangs the road traversed by the Army. A party of Sepoys is seen on the heights above, ready to punish the murderers. This Pass lies between Abigoom and Siri-Bolan, a distance of nine miles and a half; two thirds of the way, on the right, is the date-tree from which this Pass takes the name of “Siri-Kanjoor.” The road is hemmed in by wild and rugged mountains which afford numerous inaccessible positions for the predatory and murderous Beloochees, who from these haunts most skilfully use their jezails and rifles, most formidable weapons with fixed rests, and which are said to carry about eight hundred yards, being seven feet in length. A dead camel and a camp-follower with his throat cut and otherwise most cruelly mutilated, were seen lying together in the middle of the road. Here also, destruction to the Army was most unsparingly dealt out and almost with impunity, the mountains affording protection to the cowardly Beloochees from any volley directed at them. Sketches in Afghanistan, Henry Graves & Co. and W.H. Allen & Co., London, 1842. Letterpress title printed in blue incorporating list of plates, tinted lithographic title, dedication leaf, 25 tinted plates by Louis and Charles Haghe. This is one of the earliest collections of views of Afghanistan. James Atkinson, the celebrated translator of Firdausi’s Shah Nameh and one of the first Europeans to explore Afghanistan, was on of the pioneers of oriental studies. The lithographers Louis and Charles Haghe were involved in a number of important publications in the 1840’s and 1850’s and are celebrated for the particular high quality of their work.