THE AMEER'S MEMOIRS.
[fo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The correspondents who have referred, in two recent issues of the Spectator, to the " dog and cooking-pot" occurrence in the Ameer's autobiography, seem surprised at the historical coincidence. Mir Munshi, in his preface, places before the reader very vividly the many startling contrasts which alter- nately illumined and darkened the career of Abdurrahman before he became Ameer of Afghanistan. Such contrasts are not uncommon in the histories of kingly adventurers and soldiers of fortune, and parallel examples of other incidents might be found in history in abundance to point the saying that " truth is stranger than fiction." The book would have grown to abnormal dimensions if every such coincidence had been made subject for lengthy notes. I may add that Sultan Mohammad Khan is an Indian, not an Afghan. In his absence in India I have thought it advisable, on my own responsibility, to write this note.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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