1 466 AZIZ KHAN,
2 act of the,English, however pleasing to some,
3 naturally alarmed the Afghan nobles; and
4 those who had come to Kabul to offer their
5 homage instantly fled, from a dread of sharing
6 the same fate, which prevented others also from
7 coming to court. Among the fugitives were
8 -Aziz Khan and some other Ghilzae chiefs who
9 had adhered to the late ruler to the last: and
10 yet at the time we entered his territory he was
11 “to banish every suspected Afghan to London.” Read
12 Lieutenant Eyre and Mohan Lal. The former says, ‘‘ The
13 two great leaders of the rebellion were Aminulla Khan,
14 the chief of Logar, and Abdulla Khan Achakzae, a chief
15 of great influence, and possessing a large portion of the
16 Pisheen valley. Aminulla Khan had hitherto been con-
17 sidered one of the staunchest friends of the existing
18 government, and such was the confidence placed in him
19 by the Vazir that he had selected him to take charge ‘of
20 Himza Khan, the lately superseded governor of the Ghil-
21 zaes, as a prisoner to Ghazni. This man now distin-
22 guished himself as one of our most inveterate enemies.
23 The immediate cause of the outbreak in the capital was a
24 seditious letter addressed by Abdulla Khan to several
25 chiefs of influence at Kabul, stating that it was the design
26 of the Envoy to seize and send them all to London!?—
27 Eyre’s , Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, pp-
28 15-17.