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3 gnllen, and suspicious temper ; arrogant and irritable to thofeanMiid
4 him, difficult of access, ami tenacious of respect.
5 In my own intercourse with him, liowcver, I found l\im to possess all
6 the good qualities ascribed to him, without any one of the had.
7 Akram Khaun was a very strong man, upwards of six feet hifj;h,
8 with a !»ullen conntenance, and an apparent ciisposition to taoituriiitv;
9 this however wore oft', and he talked without resen'-e of his deleat,
10 which he aiScribed to treacherv in his army, and of all other subjects
11 which were likely to interest. His dress was very simple, and his
12 manners plain. With Akram Kliauii all Liie Dooraunee Khauus who
13 had been with the army had returned, and I now exchanged visits
14 nith tlMm kSL . I fiwiid their sociely wjr pleiWMit } they generally
15 tilked of Inmkiiig and Junrking, honm and aiBU ; .Mked questfiaiM
16 about ^blfanatemd pfodmsCiona of Knffm^ md India, -and'.eiB^
17 pliBied those of tfanr own ooiBilxy: ibay alsfraflmedmea-lnld. Httlo
18 meodbteB, or foooanfeed emta m wfaidi they had becni engaged*
19 ftoaentg. WBto alwvjra intecchanged after -the "^liiha. 'I. apnt.tiw
20 fioonuuieea aitiidles- o£ £iira|iean or TnwBfliw mfmiQwiffrf^ ' and-thiiy
21 pcre me hofwa* dogty and hawks.
22 Soon «fter' the arrival of then Khauna, and* befeie the.fint;alam
23 oieated by the bad man tpw ofinv a'Hmdoo waa aeised m ooeof the
24 passes on the way to Gailbul» and a report immediately spread throe^
25 Feshawer, that he was a servant of mine, charged with lettera to
26 Shauh Mahmood, begging him to pnah on to Peahawer, and engaging
27 for the capture of the Balla Hissaor, and the seizure of Shauh. Shujan.
28 This story was accompanied by a rumour, that the King wa* on the
29 point of giving up bur property to phmder. Tlie whole town was,
30 in consequence, in a ferment ; peoplr were runninf; up and down in
31 alf fhrocfrons, getting their arms in mder, and lighting theii matiht^s,
32 and a great mob soon assembled at our gates. All tlie gentlemen of
33 the embassy wore sitting at this time in the liail, receiving company ;
34 but Captain Pitman quietly doubletl the guards, and took other mea-
35 sures of defence. In the mean time, Mooiia Jaflfer and another of
36 4>ur friends urived in much alarm, and there was a great. deal of
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