Living with the natives and putting up at the Mehman Khana (the guest house) of such principal villages or towns as possessed one, they naturally were thrown very closely into contact with native life, and learned native opinions.
Near the lakes are the ruins of two important towns or fortresses, Chahilburj, and Khana Yahudi.
The resources of Bamian were insufficient even for his diminished force (now reduced to about its original strength of eight hundred), and the Ghulam Khanacontingent grew restive and impatient, demanding to go back to Kabul.
The Ghulam Khana men, about two hundred and twenty strong, therefore moved in force from Bamian, with the hope of being able to influence the Hazaras to let them pass through Besud.
In this Babur-khana is the town Kacha-kot from which Babur always names the river Haru.
A door in the west wall leads into the cloisters, which formerly connected Akbar's apartments with the Daftar Khana and with Jodh Bai's palace.
Neither the Daftar Khana nor this building should be devoted to such purposes, merely to avoid the paltry expense of providing proper dak bungalows.
One night the Ibadat-Khana was brightened by the presence of Padre Rodolpho, who for intelligence and wisdom was unrivalled among Christian doctors.
The chapar-khana usually consists of a walled enclosure containing stabling for a large number of horses and quarters for the stablemen and station- keeper.
At four farsakhs from Kasveen I reach the chapar-khana of Cawanda, where a breakfast is obtained of eggs and tea; these two things are among the most readily obtained refreshments in Persia.
While the horses were being changed I was asked by the khafe-khana man to go and inspect a man who was ill.
Inscriptions and ornamentations on Chappar-Khana walls, i.
I had got off the carriage and had carried into the khafe-khana my camera, and also my revolver in its leather case which had been lying on the seat of the carriage.
There were some 300 habitations in Agdah, the principal one with a large quadrangular tower, being that of the Governor; but both the Chappar khana and the caravanserai were the filthiest we had so far encountered.
Illustration: The Interior of Chappar Khana at Kohrut.
The soil got very stony on getting near Kushkuhyeh (altitude 4,900 feet), where we entered the Chappar khana exactly at noon.
So to avoid a repetition of the occurrence, and to prevent a probable accident, I brought all into the khafe-khana room and deposited the lot on the raised mud portion along the wall, seating myself next to my property.
We left the Chappar khana at midnight in a terrific cold wind, and this time on shockingly bad horses.
At Gumush-Khana I was ordered to take the women and children to Erzindjan.
When the first batches of deported Armenians arrived at Gumush-Khana all able-bodied men were sorted out, with the excuse that they were going to be given work.
I am worried to ride so incessantly that I am forced to seek self-protection in pretending to have sprained my ankle, and in returning to the chapar-khana with a hypocritical limp.
Very punctilious as regards etiquette, instead of coming forth in a spontaneous manner to see who I am and look at the bicycle, he pays me a ceremonious visit at the chapar-khana half an hour later.
I station myself ostensibly for the remainder of the day on the bala-khana front, and busy myself in taking observations of the villagers and their doings.
Our quarters are in the bala-khana of a small half-ruined konak outside the village, and shortly after retiring thither the khan's sprightly little retainer brings in tea and fried eggs, besides pomegranates and roses for myself.
The floor of the bala-khana forms once again my nocturnal couch; but the temperature lowers perceptibly as the night advances and the rain continues, and toward morning it changes into snow.
As we reach the chapar-khana there, a voice from the roof greets us with "Sprechen sie Deutsch.
Both camps rushed into the city, and the consequence has been the almost total destruction of all parts of the town, except the Gholam-Khana quarter and the Balla Hissar.
This space is to accommodate nine ladies, twenty gentlemen, and fourteen children, and in the Tei-Khana are seventeen European soldiers and three European women—all prisoners.
No light for us, and I warrant the brute has either smoked himself dead drunk or is away at the Bhung-khana just when he is wanted.
Here the building is carried up another story, and this part of the Salaam Khana constitutes the Amir's Guest house.
When the inspection of arms was over, His Highness, followed by the Princes and the Courtiers, entered the Salaam Khana and took his seat on the couch in one of the end rooms.
An attack was expected at night, and all preparations were made; we ladies were sent down to the Tye Khana to sleep.
At last the balls came so thick that we were all ordered down into the Tye Khana (underground room), and kept there.
We were ordered to sit upstairs as much as possible, as the Tye Khana and Go-downs were considered unhealthy; fortunately, the firing was so slack, that we could sit at the front door.
I had an enormous rat in my bedding when I unrolled it in the Tye Khana for the night.
The last three nights in the Tye Khana I have slept on chairs, to escape the rats; for the last night I slept on the floor I felt my bedding heaved up, and a large black rat ran from under it.
This afternoon an 18-pounder came into the drawing-room; we were all sent down to the Tye Khana in a great hurry.
At night the Tye Khana was so disagreeable that we were obliged to burn camphor and paper in it.
Both these travellers represent the road near Gumisch-Khana as extremely difficult.
Mr. Kinneir reached Gumisch-Khana at the end of the third day after quitting Trebizond; the two last days having been very long and fatiguing.
Both Mr. Kinneir and Mr. Hamilton passed through Gumisch-Khana on the road from Trebizond to Erzerum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "khana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
