Note 11 — Chapter III · Population—Costumes—Usages—Festivals
Ratanbai Ardeshir Vakil translation
It is in vain that communities of Parsis have been sought for outside those regions which we have indicated.11 About sixty years ago a Mahomedan traveller did try to persuade others of the existence of a Parsi colony at Khoten, a country situated to the south-east of Kaschgar; but Sir Alexander Burnes, in a communication to Mr. Naoroji Fardunji, dissipated this illusion.12