1 458 THE SOORKHAB.
2 Some parte of Akbar Khan’s camp equipage,
3 a few horses, draft bullocks, and jazails, con-
4 stituted the other property which fell into our
5 hands on the occasion, but we did not claim
6 them as prize.*
7 26th.—Marched from Gandamak at day-
8 break, and encamped on the bank of the Soor-
9 khab, of the stream so called from the red
10 colour of its water. Road up and down hills
11 the whole way, over stony and uneven ground.
12 Some of the ascents and descents rather long
13 and steep ; crossed the stream by a dilapidated
14 stone bridge built by Ali Mardan Khan. This
15 stream, of which I have already spoken, forms
16 the natural boundary between the Jalalabad
17 and Kabul territories. The Afghans say tliat
18 the hot climate ceases on this side of the bridge,
19 and the cold begins to be felt on the other;
20 gun, mounted on a most rudely-constructed carriage, the
21 naves of the wheels being about two feet and a half in
22 diameter, and the felloes thick in proportion, which he had
23 also been unable to carry away in his retreat.”—Barr’s
24 Journal, pp. 362-3.
25 * She Sikhs afterwards claimed their guns, and they
26 were restored to them. :