made by others, but edited or carefully carried through the press by
Carey. The wonderful tale of his Bible work is well illustrated by
a man who, next to the Lawrences, was the greatest Englishman who
has governed the Punjab frontier, the hero of Mr. Ruskin's book, A
Knight's Faith. In that portion of his career which Sir Herbert
Edwardes gave to the world under the title of A Year on the Punjab
Frontier in 1848-49, and in which he describes his bloodless
conquest of the wild valley of Bunnoo, we find this gem embedded.
The writer was at the time in the Gundapoor country, of which
Kulachi is the trade-centre between the Afghan pass of Ghwalari and
Dera Ismail Kan, where the dust of Sir Henry Durand now lies:--

"A highly interesting circumstance connected with the Indian trade
came under my notice. Ali Khan, Gundapoor, the uncle of the present
chief, Gooldâd Khan, told me he could remember well, as a youth,
being sent by his father and elder brother with a string of Cabul
horses to the fair of Hurdwâr, on the Ganges. He also showed me a
Pushtoo version of the Bible, printed at Serampore in 1818, which he
said had been given him thirty years before at Hurdwâr by an English
gentleman, who told him to 'take care of it, and neither fling it
into the fire nor the river; but hoard it up against the day when
the British should be rulers of his country!' Ali Khan said little
to anybody of his possessing this book, but put it carefully by in a
linen cover, and produced it with great mystery when I came to
settle the revenue of his nephew's country, 'thinking that the time
predicted by the Englishman had arrived!' The only person, I
believe, to whom he had shown the volume was a Moolluh, who read
several passages in the Old Testament, and told Ali Khan 'it was a
true story, and was all about their own Muhommudan prophets, Father
Moses and Father Noah.'