1 256 THE SHAH ZADA AT PESHAWR.
2 and moved to the other side of the city about a
3 mile to the wegtward of it, and joined the new
4 levies which were encamped in advance of us
5 as already mentioned. The Shah Zada passed
6 in procession through the city, on which occa-
7 sion he was accompanied by the British Mission
8 and the Sikh, European, and native officers,
9 besides a number of the Afghan Khans or
10 nobles, who had lately joined his Royal High-
11 ness, The crowds of men and women who
12 were collected on the tops and balconies of
13 their houses to have a sight of their old prince
14 (Peshawr is his birth-place) expressed their
15 pleasure by making exclamations of “ Long
16 live the Shah Zada.”*
17 * « Asour route lay through the main street of Peshawr,
18 Colonel Wade divected our march should assume the form
19 of a procession, in order that the situation of the Shah Zada,
20 surrounded by British, Sikh, and Mahomedan troops, should
21 be more fully displayed to the public, as a means of in-
22 ducing some to blazon forth the irresistible grandeur of his
23 position, and others to enrol themselves under the Durranee
24 banner. A company of British troops, and likewise one
25 from each of the Maharaja’s regiments, under Lieutenant
26 Corfield, were sent in advance to the new ground, there to
27 be in ‘readiness to salute the prince on his arrival. Twenty-