1 RASH MEASURES OF THE SHAH. 465.
2 to distract the enemy, confiding .in our as-
3 surances that they would be approved and
4 rewarded for their conduct, and Logar being
5 nearer on the road to the Shah than the route
6 by which his son Taimur was advancing, by
7 our advice they joined his Majesty before his
8 entrance into Kabul; but their services were
9 not appreciated. They had not been performed
10 before himself nor any of the British officers
11 with him; and being no longer thought of any
12 use, the men retired to their homes disgusted.
13 We were also informed of another +ash and
14 questionable measure of the Shah’s Govern-
15 ment, which caused a general suspicion of his
16 designs. Haji Khan, Kakar, the first to desert
17 from the enemy and join the King near Can-
18 dahar, who had been sent with some European
19 officers and a party of cavalry to pursue Dost
20 Mahomed, was, on a charge of conniving at
21 the escape of the Amir, put in confinement
22 along with Aminulla Khan Logari, one of the
23 principal chiefs of that tribe* This sudden
24 * The man who incited the insurrection in N6w 1841,
25 by proclaiming the intention of the British Government
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