1 AmDix j FUOHT OF HAHHOOD TO BQKHAtTKA.
2 573
3 Persians as should enable him to retake Herant ; or at least to «!^riire fiwr
4 himself «oinc (uIi'm part of the Dooraunec domimons in Persian Khurassaun.
5 He had not, however, be^n long at Ueraut, whea he received accounts of
6 theratiMlitfnittelkiyit ShMill, -wki lud fiibd in his attcmpli in Kho^
7 riniiwin s tiDd mmu aftor Shaoh Zanunm vithdreir to Candahnv "tArnt hft
8 remained during the printer of 1799.
9 Not laog after Zemaun had arrived at Candahar, aa vaamuxtm&X attenqpt
10 Has made on Heraut by Shauh Mahmood.
11 The flight of tliat prince to Toorshish, on the taking of Heraut (in 1797),
12 has already been mentioned } he soon after repaired to the Persian court,
13 where he was kindly reoeifed.
14 In die spring of the next year (1798), he k£t iJw odmt and xeCifed lint to
15 fTantiBniii and tbm to Twffahtw He fcaBakied thtfo tiU ^imm^ of 1900^
16 when he acoon^panied the King of Persia on the expedition into Khorassaun,
17 whicli I have just mentioned. He remained in Khorassaun after the King of
18 Persia liad retired, and endeavoured to stir up some of the chief*; of that
19 country to assist hmi in tlie attack on Heraut. After failing in 1 oorsiiish
20 and Tubbus, he succeeded in procuring tiie support of Mehr AlU Khaun, the
21 ndwof Kaiiin andBerjend: and be now advanoad agaiwt Heraot witli tan
22 thwmand men belonging to that chjafc He nittt have marched from Be^«id
23 vitbin a montli or two after Shauh Zemaun left Heraut.
24 At Izfezuiir, lie was encountered by a force sent by Prince Kyser from
25 ^eraut, which lie defeated. He then advanced and invested Heraut: bis
26 operations were at tirst successful, but Wuftadar having managed by an artful
27 expedient to render Mahmood suspicious of a design on the part of Melu
28 Alti to betnj hini, that timid prinoe anddenly quitted hia eamp in the night,
29 and Mehr Alii nas obliged to setreat witli pi«d|iitalion to hia own territmy, '
30 which be reached afler encountarioig great difficoHiea in the demrt tract be-
31 tween Heraut and Berjund.
32 Mahmoofl i!i the mean time continued his flight into Tartnry, and at last
33 reached tlit c t u t of Hf>khaura, He there met with a friendly and honorable
34 reception, aud had remained for some time at one of the King's palaces,
35 wbm an agent arrifed fiom Shauh Zemaun to vamonatrate with Sbanh Mo*
36 iaud for granting him $fi asylum, and to requeit that the King of Boichaora
37 would deliver bim up to Ua omi aovereign, against whom be bad rebelled*
38 The agent is said to have been authorized to promise a large pecuniarjgrati*
39 fication to the King of Bokhaura on Mahmood's being delivered up. It ia
40 not quite certain how these applications were received : there can be litUe
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