1 TO DURIA KHAN. 359°
2 obliged to turn themselves towards Girishk
3 and Nadir Ali (the anvient fortress of the
4 Barakzae family), while they themselves with
5 their followers have encamped on the banks of
6 the Helmund river. The infidels have thus
7 got possession of Candahar; but the servants
8 of the Amir are now collecting forces from all
9 quarters, and stirring up the people around
10 them for their entire extermination. The men
11 also of Turkistan and the Ghilzaes are pre-
12 paring to fight for the faith. From the men
13 of Iran and Roog (Persia and Russia) also,
14 certain intelligence of their approach has come;
15 and these Nazarenes (Christians) at Candahar
16 are in a state of the greatest anxiety, and well
17 nigh their wits’ end, seeing they are about to
18 be attacked from every quarter. At the same
19 time Shah Zada Kamran has applied to this
20 ill-omened tribe for aid to protect Herat against
21 the Russians. When the Firangis at Can-
22 dahar saw affairs taking this turn, they wrote
23 off to their own country for reinforcements ;
24 but we trust in God that the heat will now
25 prevent the arrival of any new troops, and that