Sunday, September 1, 2013
In 1811 Moorcroft travelled extensively among the northern
sub- continent in serach of better breeding stock. To Lucknow, the capital of
Oudh, and to Benares (then still part of Maratha Territory), but Moorcroft
failed to acquire the ideal breeding horses that he sought. In Benares he
learned that Bukhara was rumoured to
have “ the greatest horse market in the world.” Moorcroft recruited a Persian
named Mir Izzat- Allah to make a scouting trip to Bukhara and map out the
route. He also learned that fine breeding horses might be found in Tibet.
Moorcroft continued his journeys; Kashmir was reached on 03
November 1822, Jalalabad on 04 June 1824, Kabul on 20 June, and Bokhara on 25
February 1825.
At Andkhoy, in Afghan Turkestan, Moorcroft was seized with
fever, of which he died on the 27 August 1825, with Trebeck surviving him only
a few days. But according to the Abbe Hue, Moorcroft reached Lhasa in 1826, and
lived there twelve years, being assassinated on his way back to India in 1838.
In 1841, Moorcroft’s papers were obtained by the Asiatic
Society and published, under the editorship of H.H Wilson, under the title of
Travels in Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab, in Ladakh and
Kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz and Bokhara, from 1819 to 1825.
William Moorcroft (1767 – 27 August 1825), English explorer,
was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, the illegitimate son of Ann Moorcroft,
daughter of a local farmer. He was Baptised in 1767 in St Peter & St Paul
the Parish Church of Ormskirk where there is a commemorative plaque to his
life.
While employed by the East India Company Moorcroft travelled
extensively throughout the Himalayas, Tibet and central Asia, eventually
reaching Bukhara, in present day Uzbekistan.
Book: Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Ladakh
& Kashmir
Author: William Moorcroft George Trebeck
ISBN: 978-81-8339-176-2
Language: English
Author: William Moorcroft George Trebeck
ISBN: 978-81-8339-176-2
Language: English
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