1 292 RESOLUTION OF THE KHAIBARIS.
2 would not engage to expel the garrison of Ali
3 Masjid, and +o conduct the Shah Zada at once
4 through the pass, they would undertake that
5 service themselves. They sent their deputies,
6 and a few days afterwards they returned. The
7 result was the failure of their mission ; and after
8 further consultation the Maliks expressed also
9 their own inability to act offensively. It now
10 became perfectly evident that they had joined
11 Mr. Lord with no other end than to gain
12 money. They were therefore desired to leave
13 the camp and return to Khaibar, and that,
14 when their services were required, they would
15 be recalled. Thus we got rid of these idle
16 hands. They had been entertained in the idea
17 that we should prosecute our operations from
18 Peshawr without delay, when they might have
19 been made of use; but the Sikhs took care that
20 we should be disappointed in that object. The
21 Khaibaris and other rude Afghans of the hills
22 believed that we had a countless treasure, and
23 that they had only to ask to be sure of receiying
24 innumerable presents. Some of the Afridis
25 who visited me, seeing a few tin cases contain-