1 306 SHAH ZADA YEHIA.
2 to adopt the cause of the Shah. Emissaries
3 were also seht to secure the fidelity of those
4 people, and to tell them that they were to
5 wait a little longer, when they should at once
6 revolt in the Shah’s favour. One of these
7 emissaries was Shah Zada Yehia, of the Sad-
8 dozae family. He is an intelligent young
9 man, and who, with his family, had, as I have
10 . noticed, lately effected his escape from ‘Kabul
11 and joined Prince Taimur, his cousin, on our
12 way, at Jehlam. Gholam Khan proposed that
13 he should be sent to the Kohistan, where the
14 deputation of a Shah Zada would in his
15 opinion be considered an honour done to them
16 by the Kohistanis and excite a rebellion among
17 them. He was sent to them in disguise, and,
18 having to pass through a hostile country, was
19 exposed to many hardships and dangers to
20 avoid discovery. On his arrival he became
21 the guest of. Shadad, the son of Mazulla Khan,
22 a powerful chief in that quarter, who had been
23 well affected to the interests of the Shah, and
24 some years ago murdered by Dost Mahomed.
25 It was owing to these direct measures and the