1 INTRODUCTION.
2 been carried* iiod the anaOents been apimateri by that spirit irbidt
3 has always enabled the needy armies of the west to finoe Ihe entrance
4 of this ridi valley. Akiam, however, lent an' ear to the persoasions
5 of Motawulleet who undertook to shew him' a pass, by whidi he mig^
6 turn the flank of the enemy's work* Aeoor£ii^y the' army marched
7 off fiom the front of the entrenchmenty and moved up a vaiUey» secur-
8 mg the mountains on each ride by parties of Khyfoeree and Chiljie
9 infantry. Its march was* however^ soon discovered, and its infimtiy
10 dcit-munbered and driven in $ in additicm to which» it was ascertained
11 rumoured, that the upper put of the valley was choked with im-
12 panable snow. Akram Khaun now lost all confidence : he remained
13 for a day in the valley without supplies, and exposed to the fire of
14 the enemy's in&ntiy, which was disheartening to his troops, thou^
15 too distant to be injurious. This situation produced many desertions,
16 which, added to the perfidy of Motawiillee, completed Ak ram's
17 alarm, and, knowing liow unpo]in]:ir ho in the army, he began to
18 fear that he would be seized and delivered to the chief of Cashnieer,
19 the disgrace and death of whose fatlier he had ocoasione<l. The result
20 was a resohition to fly ; and, accordingly, in the course of the night,
21 all the chiefs abandoned the army, and each separately endeavoured
22 to effect his escape through the passes of the mountains. Most of
23 theiu were |iluiiilpred by Motawullee's mountaineers, before they
24 passed Mi>/iiiieial)ail ; and Akram himself is said to have been sur-
25 rounded, and only to have escaped by scattering pieces of gold among
26 the plunderers, and flying during the scramble^ At length he crassed
27 the Indus, and leached the town of Aeora} where he received thoae
28 who went to meet him without the smallest abatement of his former
29 pride* The troops, when deserted by thehr chiefi, Bar the most port
30 laid <k>wn then arms. Some endeavoured to force their way throui^
31 the hiDs, but shared the fiite of thc9T superiors. Of the whole army,
32 not above two thousand men arrived at Peshawer, dismounted* dis*
33 anned, and almost naked. This disaster, great as it was, was.ezag«
34 gerated when first heard of at Peshawer ; the whole army wiis said to
35 be annihilatiadr Aknan Khann was missing, and JMuddud Khann had