1 Appekdix.1 , • GHILJIE REBELLION. 581
2 liiitributed large sums ammig At^ribes round Peshawar, aai loon Mnr fbt
3 greater part of the Berdooraimees flock to hi? "Standard.
4 A considerable alarm appears to h:i\c prevailed at Mahmooii's court in
5 consequence of this step : his cause had aiready become uupopuiar from the
6 general relaxation of all government^ vIliGil Iflft tlw bulk lit tlie tnhihitMrti
7 of Ae countTf «k lilM mercy of liie oouttien and ike tnUSery $ Mid « plot in
8 ftvo&r of Shooini tM* diwaowgod to Iwvo bean onlered on by HokfalMir
9 OoddoiriK. That noUeinaii mt iMmww wnated» and tbe plot caaw to
10 nothing,
11 On die loth of September, rSoi, Shoqjaool Mooik marched from Peshawer
12 to attack Caubul. About lialf way between those cities, he Ibiind Mah-
13 mood's fwcCt consisting of three thou»aud meu, drawn up at Eshpaun, iu a
14 narrow pUn innoaiided ivith hills, and hsving Ae bvook of SoorkhnMid in
15 tboirfiwit 'fihi^badat <hia time at kait ten thoumid man$ but tbagr
16 were Berdoonmnae^' and thoqg^ aocaalomad to tiie batdei of. their dani^
17 thqrvere strangers to djicqdine and to regular war. Shtga'a afma.mia^
18 however, victorious in the bcgnuiincf of the bnttlo ; hut his Berdooraunee
19 troops, eager to profit by the contusion, quitfrtl tlicir line as soon as they
20 thought the victory decided, and began to plunder the royal treasures, which
21 Shuja had imprudently brought into the field. Futteh Khaun seized this
22 opportmiity, and diarging at tbe head of bis Bamik^resb rompletdl tbe eon-
23 with some difficulty to the Khyber hills, where be remained till afieab oppofw
24 tunity offered of asserting his claim to the throne.
25 The destruction of 8huja'^ nrmy was ihr from restoring the quiet of the
26 kingdom, for an insurrection now l>roi\e out which threatened to be fatal,
27 not only to Mahmood's power, but to the existence of the Doorauuee go>
28 mnmnt. TheGbfljiflibadienBiBedinpcdecttianqaiiiil^
29 of Ahmed Shauh, and were now to appeeraaee entirefy reconciled to tiie
30 I>ooraunecs : the desc^MUnts of their kings had been treated with kindneii^
31 and Abdooreheem, the representative of ^heir royal fiMnily» eiQoyed a pensioQ
32 from Shauh Zemmm, in addition to his paternal estates. TThe rest of the
33 Ghiljies mii;lit still experience some injustice in c<>mmon witli tin other tribes,
34 but nothing doue by the Doorauuccs jihcwedany reioaius ot particular enmity
35 totikm.
36 Tbea«oient iMiy of the tribei wai^ honrefer* atiU remeoibnKd iiy.tbe
37 Gliiljiai^ andtbeweaknen'of theDnqnimeefovcfna^ *
38 oppottaaify of raeoveriag tbeir nidc|iaidenee.
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