1 AFFAIRS OF KUNAR. 443
2 The former sent his cousin, and the latter his
3 brother named Dost Mahomed ; and from the
4 reports we heard of their intentions, they would
5 most likely have come and waited on the Shah -
6 but the precipitous measures taken at Kabul
7 for the restoration of Sayed Bahauddin to
8 Kunar (forgetting that great projects are often
9 ruined by precipitation), as will soon appear,
10 alarmed that chief and others, and prevented
11 them from trusting in the sincerity of our
12 overtures.
13 Had the Shah’s government consulted those
14 who were. then on the spot and acquainted with
15 the subject, and avoided haste, the lives and
16 property which were subsequently lost in the
17 recovery of Kunar, and asserting his power in
18 that quarter, might have been saved.
19 The royal authority was established through-
20 out the Jalalabad territory, and Mir Abul
21 Hasan Khan, the Sandukbardar, or keeper of
22 the King’s wardrobe, was appointed the go-
23 vernor of it, pending the orders of his Majesty.
24 A quantity of powder and about five jhundred
25 rounds of ball which had been left ‘by the
26 young Sirdar, together with some unwrought