1 CAPTURE OF CANNON. 457
2 the road near Balabagh,* and on bis arrival at
3 Gandamak, where it appears he first received
4 the news of the fall of Ghazni, he determined
5 to abandon the remainder of his guns, consist-
6 ing of twelve very good pieces of artillery, two
7 of which had been captured from Shah Shuja
8 on his defeat at Candahar in 1833, and two
9 from the Sikhs in the battle of Jamrud in 1837.
10 Most of these were traced out and taken pos-
11 session of by people who were sent ahead to
12 secure them. From the latter a salute was
13 fired in honour of the Shah’s restoration, and
14 they were all ordered to Jalalabad to be dis-
15 posed of according to the Shah’s orders.t
16 * This gun was afterwards one of the trophies of
17 General Pollock's army, which he wished to convey to
18 India ; but it was burst and abandoned in Khaibar, in
19 consequence of the rapidity of our retirement from Kabul.
20 + “ Notwithstanding I had suffered from an attack of
21 ague in the morning, { was able to walk (my first essay
22 for a long time) a short distance to inspect some ordnance
23 that had been abandoned by Mahomed Akbar Khan during
24 his flight from the Khaibar, and which fell into our hands
25 here. It consisted of ten or twelve brass cannons, mostly
26 of small calibre; and I omitted to mention that*hetween
27 Jalalabad and Chaharbagh we passed a very large brass
28 ¥