1 MURDER OF COLONEL HERRING. 485
2 Gholam Khan, the Popalzae chief, who had
3 ‘before been employed in inciting them against
4 Dost Mahomed, was hastily despatched.* .
5 In the opposite direction Lieut.-Colonel Her-
6 ring, who was coming with his regiment
7 from’ Candahar, had been murdered between
8 Ghazni and Kabul; and a force was sent to trace
9 out and punish his murderers. The country
10 towards Bamian was likewise reported to be
11 disaffected; a detachment, along with Mr.
12 Lord, was despatched to that quarter to pre-
13 serve tranquillity, and watch the movements
14 of Dost Mahomed Khan and his son Akbar.
15 The communication through Khaibar was still
16 kept open, but only by the presence of the
17 ‘humerous troops we had left there and at
18 Dhaka and Jalalabad; as in consequence of
19 * It is strange that Mir Masjidee, who is mentioned by
20 Lieutenant Eyre as “ putting himself at the head of a
21 powerful and well organised party in 1840, with the
22 avowed intention of expelling the Feringees and over-
23 turning the existing government,” so soon after should be
24 also of the number of those who was the foremost to fight
25 for the Shah, and to receive for that purpose a Shah Zada
26 in disguise in their country !