1 72 EXPOSTULATIONS AND
2 his family. Other Afghans are also arriving
3 daily,‘and jaining the camp. The Khawanin,
4 who had quitted Sultan Mahomed Khan and
5 joined the Shah Zada’s camp at Lahore, re-
6 ported that the Sirdar, to retaliate on them,
7 ‘had seized their property, and put their fami-
8 lies within his jurisdiction into confinement.
9 As such a circumstance was likely to discourage
10 other Afghans from joining the Shah’ Zada,
11 and to defeat the object in view, prompt
12 notice was taken of the subject by Sir Claude
13 in an expostulatory letter to Ranjeet Singh,
14 with Dost Mahomed Khan led to his accompanying the
15 : military division which was sent to intercept that chief, as it
16 was probable that his surrender might be facilitated through
17 his agency ; but it was, unhappily, the circumstance which
18 led to his own death, which, with that of nearly all the
19 officers of the troop, ensued upon the disgraceful flight of
20 our cavalry. The subject has been already too often before
21 the public to need repetition. Dr. Lord was spurring
22 across the field to join a party which seemed to evince a
23 better spirit, when he fell, pierced by more than a dozen
24 balls. His death was instantaneous. The reading of the
25 Memoir was followed by an extract of a letter from Sir
26 Alexander Burnes, declaring the regret of the Indian
27 Government at the loss of so zealous and able a servant ;
28 and expressing his own soirow at the deprivation of so
29 dear a friend.”