1 328 ARRIVAL AT PESHAWR OF
2 place of safety towards the outside of the pass,
3 where he rémained until he was reinforced
4 from our camp.* Sadat Khan, after establish-
5 ing his authority in Naowaghi, returned to
6 Lalpura. These reverses may be entirely as-
7 eribed to the pusillanimous behaviour of the
8 Bajour chief, and the treachery of Nawab Khan
9 and Sadiq Mahomed Khan, the half brothers of
10 Sadat Khan, who, ashamed of their conduct,
11 asked to be forgiven, and did not continue long
12 with the enemy; but they were not allowed to
13 rejoin the camp.
14 In the mean time Kour Nao Nihal Singh,
15 accompanied by Raja Golab Singh, Sirdars
16 Attar Singh Sindhanwalia and Lehna Singh
17 Majithia, arrived at Peshawr, while Jemadar
18 Khoshal Singh had been left at Naoshehera in
19 charge of such of the Maharaja’s troops as had
20 crossed the Indus, while the main body of the
21 army, consisting, besides three regiments of
22 * “ The chief brunt of the action fell upon fifty Jazael-
23 chies from Dowson’s levies; but many of them met their
24 deaths, and the wounded were a few days afterwards brought
25 into oug camp in a most pitiable state.”—Barr’s Journal,
26 p. 297.