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2 of some three hundred men and two guns, which broke
3 down on the rapid march, the whole body was re-assembled
4 on the further bank of the Indus near Attock, on the morning
5 of the fifth day.
6 Here Goolaub Sing- rejoined his troops, and here he received
7 a letter from Dehan Sing, now at Peshawur, informing him
8 that as matters there had changed for the better, there was
9 no occasion for him to advance upon the place ; but that his
10 services were required in the Yuzoofzye country, north of the
11 Loonda or Cabul river, where all the people were up in
12 arms to claim their independance. Accordingly the army im-
13 mediately proceeded towards the troubled districts, crossing
14 the Cabul river at Jehangerah, seven or eight miles to the
15 north-west of Attock.
16 It was while engaged in the suppression of these disturbances
17 in the Yuzoofz}re districts, that Goolaub heard of a revolt in
18 his own hill states, among the Sudhun, Suthee, Doondh, and
19 Murdiall tribes. It took him, however, two months and some
20 hard fighting* to reduce the Yuzoofzyes to subjection, nor was it
21 till he had laid waste a great part of the country, and had
22 driven most of the inhabitants to the hills that order was
23 in any degree restored. After all, the country was in a very
24 unsettled state when his anxiety for the suppression of the
25 revolt in his own dominions induced him to hasten thither,
26 leaving the Yuzoofzyes to the management of one Ursulla
27 Khan, whom he made Kardar of the district. This man was
28 devoted to the interest of the Jummoo Rajah, and was great-
29 ly favoured and trusted by him. He is the same Ursulla
30 Khan, who lately caused much disturbance by exciting and
31 heading an insurrectionary movement in the country entrusted
32 to his charge.
33 It was by the wide-spread intelligence of the Seik reverses at
34 Peshawur, and a rumour that these disasters were of so serious
35 a nature that they would require for some time all the power of