1 294 HIS FRIENDLY CONDUCT.
2 secret wishes, it is proper to state that we did
3 not find hith afterwards guilty of any breach
4 of faith. Soon after the delivery. of the paper
5 the Sirdar returned to Peshawr, where he re-
6 mained during the whole of. our operations.
7 His reassurance on the part of the British
8 Government was considered by Sir Claude
9 Wade an expedient course of -policy, and he
10 was treated liberally by him throughout; in
11 consequence of which Sultan Mahomed spared
12 no means in his power of conciliating that
13 officer. He offered to co-operate in any way ;
14 but although: his personal services were de-
15 clined, his fidelity was tried by asking him for
16 some camel: swivels, &c., which he readily
17 placed at our disposal; while Pir Mahomed
18 Khan and Sayed Mahomed Khan visited the
19 Mission in succession, and vied with their elder
20 brother in offers of service. They were treated
21 with every consideration, and Pir Mahomed
22 Khan proved his good-will by furnishing about
23 fifty jazails, which he had ‘iin his stotes, to arm
24 a gorps of jazailchis the Colonel wished to
25 raise. It was considered prudent, however, not