Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...the Khyber route, and we hope soon to be able to receive dispatches at Cabool on the fifteenth day from their leaving the seat of Government at Simla. Dost Moohummud Khan has finally escaped the grasp of his pursuers, passed the Hindoo Koosh in safety, and is now employed in intrigues in the territory of his former tributary, the Meer of Koondooz, the object of which is to avail himself of the resources of that country, DUPLICITY OF HAJEE KHAN. 155 assemble an army of Uzbeks, and make an effort to regain a footing in Affghanistan. With this view he is also sedulously courting the alliance of the King of Bokhara. The pursuit of Captain Outram was bold, active, and persevering. He followed the fugitive from the 3rd to the 9th of August, on which day the Ameer crossed in his flight the Affghan frontier at Sueghan, thirty miles beyond Bamian. The British troops endured the greatest privations, having lived on parched corn for several days, their horses picking up, at the same time, scanty and indifferent forage, in the small spots of cultivation in a mountainous tract. Holding cheap these difficulties, Captain Outram pursued his arduous course from Sheikhabad across the Pughman range; to Goda, Soofued Kadir, Joort, and Kurzar. thence he tracked the footsteps of the Ameer by Kaloo, up the tremendous passes of Hajee Guk and Shootur Gurdun to Bamian, leaving close on his right the awful eminences of Kohi Baba, twenty thousand feet in height. But all his laudable endeavours and intentions were frustrated by the tricks and subterfuges of Hajee Khan. It very soon became evident that nothing was further from the thoughts of this accomplished traitor than to aid in the 156 DUPLICITY OF HAJEE KHAN. capture of his former master. His excuses were varied...
