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disposed man, treated us very hospitably, neither he or his sons read 

 the Shah's letter, but having heard it perused, he stuck it in the top of 

 his turban, and declared that he was His Majesty's servant to do any 

 thing that lay within his limited ability. We remarked that the chief 

 service His Majesty required from the Huzarah Meer was to keep 

 their people loyally quiet, to which Sadik Beg replied, that he should be 

 truly glad to be quiet, both on the king's and his own account, if some 

 of his Huzarah neighbours and Eimauks, would only let him. 



We expected to have found awaiting us near this post the Eimauk 

 escort which our guide had engaged from Mahomed Areem Beg, the 

 Atalik of the Feroozkohee clan ; but we found that in the interim the 

 Atalik had been persuaded to march with an Eimauk Army against 

 Hussun Sirdar, a powerful chief of the Dah Koondie Huzarahs, and 

 that we must in prudence await instructions from him, or an end of 

 the war. This Sadik Beg said would not last long, as the Eimauks 

 had gone in such numbers, that they would not keep the field for the 

 want of provisions, and the danger he most feared for us, was, our meet- 

 ing some of these returning troops ere we got the Ataliks safeguard. 

 Our guide therefore went off to the head quarters of the latter chief 

 and finding there one of his sons, persuaded him to come to our 

 camp. The young Eimauk chief arrived at night, and nothing 

 would induce him to go beyond my Meerzas tent. 



The Huzarahs, he said, were his sworn enemies, and were capable 

 of any atrocity, why should he put himself within their reach in the 

 dark. Next morning he went up to the fact on Sadik Beg send- 

 ing him a solemn oath of friendship, and they presently came in a 

 cordial manner together to consult with us about the onward march. 

 The son of the Atalik said that he would give an answer in his fa- 

 ther's name to any Eimauks who might come across our road, and as 

 he appeared to be an unvapouring person, he resolved to proceed with him 

 at once. Sadik Beg accompanied us one march with a large body of 

 horse, as he had heard that a party of Huzarahs, from another near 

 Chiefship, had marched to intercept us, turning back at the end of his 

 district, between which and the Eimauk border a few miles of the valley 

 are left waste, Our reported enemy, the Chief of Sal, met us here with 

 100 horse, and said that he had ridden to our assistance, on the intelli- 

 gence that Hussan Khan of the Tymunnee Eimauks had occupied the 

 road ahead, with the intention of plundering us. We understood this 

 to be a demand for a present, so adding to our thanks a Cashmere 



