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2 not well treated, which entirely destroyed their
3 faith in our words and promises.*
4 On leaving Jalalabad, our’ fighting friend
5 Mahomed Saleh was desired to disband: his
6 party with the exception of the Durrani horse,
7 who were to join the Khawanin at Kabul, and
8 to return to Peshawr; but he was permitted to
9 * « Whatever we might boast of our diplomatic successes
10 during the campaign of Afghanistan, we were certainly
11 very wrong in not keeping up our adherence, even for a
12 short time, to those engagements and promises which we
13 had so solemnly and faithfully made to the various chiefs,
14 in return for their taking up our cause and abandoning
15 their long-known and established masters. Our letters,
16 pledging our honour and Government to reward and ap-
17 preciate their services for our good, were iti their hands;
18 and as soon as we found that the chiefs of Candahar were
19 ‘Hed, and there was no necessity for wearing longer the airy
20 garb of political civilities and promises, we commenced to
21 fail in fulfilling them. There are, in fact, such numerous
22 instances of violating our engagements and deceiving the
23 people in our political proceedings, within what I am ac-
24 quainted with, that it would be hard to assemble them in
25 one series. I shall, however, mention them in their proper
26 places, and the time in which they were made, in order to
27 show how soon they were forgotten, through our vain
28 pride of power, and of our tact shown in the temporary
29 and speedy gaining of the people.”—Mohan Lal's Life of
30 Dost Mahomed Khan, pp. 208, 209.