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2 WAR WITH THE KING OF BOKHAITRA. CAmmm.
3 that he was forced to leave his artillery in Bulkh, and many of his tfOOfM
4 perished from the cold and snow in crossing the Indinn CaiirasTii. '
5 Arsilla KixauD, chief of the Upper Memunds, wlio iiati more tiian once
6 distinguished himiielf in Tiikioor Shauh's foreign expeditiona, had'iebdtod,
7 dDrii^ the ivar in TooikiBtsOk and had infested the loadB between Mnwer
8 end the caf^lal. f
9 -He afterwafdt gttve lumaelf tip to the prince irho eommaiidcil at Pesha-
10 wer, and Timoor, without regarding his voluntary surrender, or the prince's
11 solicitation for his pardon, "ordered him to be delivered to some of his trihe
12 with whom he bad a deadly feud, and by them he was immediately put to
13 death. Tliis circumstauce regarded by the A^hauns m a great staiu oti
14 Timooir'a
15 * In the qiting of 1793, Hmoor Shauh was taken ill cm a jooniey from
16 pMhawer, * anil died at Caubul on the 20th of May, 1795.
17 • At the time of Ttmoor Shauh's death f, nothing was settled respecting the
18 succesRion to the throne. He had himself named no heir. Tlie eldest and
19 most conspicuous of the prince;? were absent. Hooroayoon was governor of
20 Candahar, and Mahmooii held the same office at Ueraut. Prince Abbass
21 «ai 'governor of Beahawer, but had joined hia father on hearing of his iUneea*
22 The other piinoea weee all at Canbiil, except FetooEthe fiiU brother of Mah>
23 mood* irfao wm with that prince at Heraut.
24 ' Timoor Shauh was no sooner dead than an intrigue was set on foot to
25 secure the crown to Shauh Zemann. It rrirrifd on by Timoor Shauh's
26 favourite queen, who prevailed on Siral'rauz Khuun, the liead of'tlie Bawrik-
27 zyes to join in her scheme, and by iiis means secured the interest of most of
28 the Dooraunee Khauns.
29 * Anilla Kbaon^wai it one tinw compelW to diq>«n« hi* fblioww* and to take fclnge in the
30 eeuiitry of tlieOtiinttB Khail ; nid tlie feDowiug circunntance of hi* i«r«ption by that tribe it Ugbly
31 characteri'itic of AfgKaun mannert.
32 When Arulla KJuun approached the first village of the ^jhaaauo Khail, the heads of the tillage,
33 aUrmed at the proapect of drawiog the King's ditpleaMnv on theoMchtt, ymA oat to BMet tbe fiigw
34 tive, and told him that tiiotr granting him the right* of hospitality wuuld involve tlu-m in a contc»t
35 with the JLmg, to which they were perfectly unequal ', and that they bad therefore resolved to refuse
36 while they were engaged in conversation with him, he sent a part of his baggage into the village by
37 a circuitous route : when the chiefs found that AriiUa's people had entered their village, they imme-
38 diately acknowledged that he was aov under their pratccdoot'TCeened Urn boapilaUft and
39 noncd their tribe to defiend him.
40 t The facts contained in the following pages are entirely drawn from Mr. Alexander's history.
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