The Sikhs and Afghans (1883)

Ali Shahamat · 1883 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

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2THE KHATAKS.

3it will be affirmed on all hands, would have

4met with more opposition. The Kohistan

5people, and other tribes about Kabul, who had

6been secured by the early exertions of the

7Colonel, had already revolted against him.

8Among others, the Logar people were the

9first who set the Amir’s authority at defiance :

10they retired to their mountains, and refused to

11pay the revenue. A party of Jazaelchis was

12ordered by the Amir to march to Jalalabad.

13On the same day we heard that the road

14between Attok and Peshawr was infested by

15the Khataks ; and that three sepoys, in the

16Sikh service, were killed on the other side at

17Margalla. General Avitabile took the neces-

18sary steps to prevent these outrages.

19bl umbers of letters were addressed to the

20Rangish people, deputing Mian Budruddin

21Musazae (the nephew of the holy man of the

22same name in whose house the late Mr. More-

23croft lived for some days, and through whose

24influence for sanctity he was enabled to visit

25the Vaziri country, who had joined the camp

26on our arrival at Machni) to confer with them.

The Sikhs and Afghans (1883), p. 271 · Lahore Durbar Foundation