Note 46 — Chapter IV

On the details of Malcolm’s supplementary mission it is unnecessary to dwell. Its political results are compressible into the smallest possible space. It was, indeed, a mere pageant; and a very costly, but not wholly a profitless one. It yielded a considerable harvest of literary and scientific results, among the most important of which may be mentioned Malcolm’s elaborate and valuable “History of Persia” and the present Sir Henry Pottinger’s admirable “Account of Beluchistan;” works which, it has been well said, “not only filled up an important blank in our knowledge of the East, but which materially helped to fix the literary character of the Indian services.”