1 474 BULKH.
2 GndKil ; iMtt'tt his fifat accenioii to his govenimeiit» he ftmid ISb
3 power veiy cirGiiBUMSribed. ' His tbiliti^ howeirw, sooii enabled him,
4 SnA to reduce his lebellious snlgects, and aftemids to annex the
5 petty states of E3iii]£« Ghoiee» MoMor, Dem Gui^ ftc. whldk h^,
6 in Ids neii^ibouihoods to his own territoiy. He afterwanis took die
7 principal' share in the expulsion of Allaverdee Tauz, and acquired the
8 oountiy of Huzmt Imaum, which he delivered from that chief ; on
9 the same occasion, he gained an ascendancy in Koondooz, which he
10 helped to detifer. He connected himself by marriage with the
11 chief, and has since managed so dexterously, that Khaul Daud Khaun
12 of Koondooz, though ht^ possesses more power and resources thaai '
13 Killich Ally, is as much under his influeTice ns one of his own depu-
14 ties. He next made use of his pown on the spot, ami of all his
15 influence at court, to acquire an asei iidancy over the Httukim of
16 Buikh ; and as he had alway s been a zealous and useful servant of
17 the crown of Caubul, he contrivwl, by seizing tkvoiaable occasions,
18 to procure the transfer of some ol" the Haukim's powers to himseil,
19 and even to obtain the King's countenance, or connivance, in the
20 open leriatadce vAdch. he offered to that offioer. > At length, in the
21 year 1809, Rnnoe Abbess, the King*8 nephew, who had eaeaped
22 fitom confinement at Canbul, Bed to Bulkfa, and was received and
23 supported by the Haukim. ' It may be supposed that Siumh Shnjan
24 irm readjr moa^jti to issue otdeit to Killidi Ally, to act apunst a pre*
25 tender to the throne ; and, aoocndinj^y, Kllidi Ally attacked -and
26 expelled the Haukim ; and since that time^ he-has had more ieal
27 power in Bulkh than the King. The Dooraunee Haukim cqntinves
28 in possession of the city and its dependencies, but he is chisAy sop-
29 ported by Killich Ally; and all the rest of the province^ except
30 Taulikaun, is either under the government, or the.infiuenoe^ of the
31 same chief!
32 The King derives no benefit from the town, the revenues of which
33 are consumed in grants to learned and religious men, in pensions to
34 persons of other descriptions, in the expences of the Haukim, and
35 the pay of the Cuhneh Nokur, a description of troops petniUar to
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