1 DEFEATED BY SADAT KHAN. 327
2 ‘Khan and Sadiq Mahomed Khan, Tura Baz
3 was obliged to retire to Pindiali, where he
4 halted a few days to collect and refresh his
5 men, and endeavoured to get some succour
6 from Bajour or Machni, but still .without
7 effect. His faithless brothers, no doubt, saw
8 another pretender in Tura Baz to the rule of
9 the Momand tribe, and had accordingly been:
10 persuaded by Sadat Khan that his rise would
11 defeat their own interests. They had been
12 well treated by the Shah Zada, but they
13 wanted the spirit and firmness of their brother
14 in the hour of trial. Deceived in them, and
15 receiving no support on the side of Bajour, the
16 latter defended himself as well as he could. A
17 few days afterwards, however, Sadat Khan re-
18 turned to the attack, and after firing a few shots
19 and throwing stones from a height overlooking
20 the camp (a mode of warfare generally used in
21 these hills), he and his people rushed down and
22 closed with Tura Baz, who, finding himself
23 completely defeated, and his force diminished,
24 partly by deserters and partly by the wounds
25 which his men had received, retreated” to a