1 498 LIEUTS. MAULE AND RATTRAY.
2 regretted by every one, more especially by the
3 officers and men of the Shah Zada’s household
4 and personal guard, with whom he had become
5 a favourite by his mildness of temper, and
6 for kind manners towards them. Lieutenant
7 Rattray was nominated an assistant in the
8 political department, to accompany Mr. Lord
9 to Bamian.* Lieutenant Cunningham was
10 * Of these three excellent men not one survives. The
11 fate of Mr. Lord has already been given; that of Lieu-
12 tenants Maule and Rattray is subjoined:—“ On this day
13 (3rd Nov. 1841) Lieutenant Richard Maule, commanding
14 ‘the Kohistanee regiment, which on its return from Zoor-
15 mut had been stationed at Kahdarra in Kohistan, about
16 twenty miles north-west of Kabul, with the object of
17 keeping down disaffection in that quarter, being deserted
18 by his men, was, together with local Lieutenant Wheeler,
19 his adjutant, barbarously murdered by a band of rebels.
20 They defended themselves resolutely for several minutes,
21 but at length fell under the fire of some jazails. Lieu-
22 tenant Maule. had been previously informed of his danger
23 by a friendly native, but chose rather to run the risk of
24 being sacrificed than desert the post assigned him. Thus
25 fell a noble-hearted soldier and a devout Christian. The
26 following is an outline of what had taken place in Ko-
27 histan from the commencement of the insurrection up to
28 the presery: date. * * * * =
29 In the course of the forenoon of the 3rd of November