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acceding to this ; one of which I may mention, that Ahmed Khan's son 

 had some demand to make on Shah Pussund Khan, and he thought 

 that his being in my suite, would ensure its being granted. I therefore 

 declined the offer, on the plea of wishing to be as private as possible, 

 and not to incommode my generous hosts with a larger camp than 

 was necessary. I had been sending them a few sheep and grain and 

 fruit out of the superfluity which Futteh Khan and others had forced 

 upon me, and through Mahomed Taher, had intimated to them, that I 

 had only money sufficient for the expences of the road. I now sent a 

 parting present of food for two or three days, and consigned them, 

 in the Afghan fashion, to God. 



Mahomed Seddie Khan, one of the persons sent with me by Yar 

 Mahomed Khan, had been since our arrival at his 

 Khan'dfsmiss^' 116 home > a villa S e not far from Furrah. I learnt to-day 

 by chance, that this man had a blood feud with the 

 chief of Toojk, a place we have to pass on our road to Laush. I im- 

 mediately dispatched a letter to Mahomed Seddie, telling him that he 

 must take his leave of me here, and requesting him to send me some ser- 

 I vant, or to come himself, for his khillut. The Cosssid brought back a 

 , reply, that Mahomed Seddie was coming in person to answer my letter. 

 This evening we heard from a traveller of the flight of Dost Ma- 

 homed, and the occupation of Caubul. 



The governor called to wish me good bye, as I was to start for 

 Laush in the morning. I gave him some gay pieces of cloth, which I 

 heard would be acceptable to him, for the lady he was courting ; he 

 sent me a horse worth about fifty rupees. Before he took leave, he 

 ordered his attendants out of the room, and' begged me to intercede 

 with Major Todd in his favour, that he may not be turned out of his 

 government. " I have no heart now," he said, " to make any improve- 

 ments ; for the moment I have made the appointment worth holding, that 

 villian Dyn Mahomed Khan, who has the ear of the vuzeer, will be 

 sent to supercede me." Futteh Mahomed Khan is a relation of vuzeer 

 Yar Mahomed Khan, and is known to us as the envoy who was sent 

 from Herat to Teheran. He is a thin, yellow complexioned, insignificant 

 looking personage, with a very timid manner, indica- 

 Khan. C 6 te tive of nis character, as it was the boorj he de- 



fended, upon which the Persian assault was made at 

 the siege of Herat. He has since enjoyed, and makes the most of a 



