1 528 OUTBREAK OF THE KUAIBARIS.
2 pulsed ; that they repeated their attack on the
3 following night also without any success,
4 having previously attacked the positions occu-
5 pied by the Najibs on the heights of Lala
6 China, who were so much reduced by death
7 and sickness that they do not appear to have
8 resisted the attack. The Khaibaris rushed
9 sword in hand into their stockade or sanga,
10 and compelled them to fly, with the loss of
11 many killed and wounded, including those
12 ' who were too sick and helpless to move.
13 During the prevailing sickness in September
14 they chad lost their old commandant, Praem
15 Singh, who had joined Ranjeet Singh from
16 Holkar’s service after the battle of Mahedpore
17 in 1819 with his corps, and been in command
18 of these men for fifty years; which likewise
19 dispirited them and destroyed their discipline.
20 ~The chief instigator of these disturbances was
21 Khan Bahadar Khan. We were happy, how-
22 ever, to learn that the troops which had been or-
23 dered into the Pass from Dhaka and Jalalabad .
24 on our arrival at the former of these places, had
25 opportunely arrived at Ali Masjid, and pre-