text: "--Here leave we Kerim Khan; not without a hope that in spite of the apprehensions expressed in the passage just quoted of incurring the reproach to which "travellers' tales" are supposed to be sometimes obnoxious he has not eventually persisted in withholding from his countrymen a narrative which both from the opportunities of observation enjoyed by the writer and the ability and good judgement with which he has availed himself of these advantages is better calculated to dispel the incredulity which he anticipates than the Travels of Mirza Abu-Taleb (the text of which has been printed at Calcutta ) or indeed than any work with which we are acquainted