334 Journal kept while travelling in Seistan. [No. 112. 



Mahmood understanding, doubtless, the true motive for his deser- 

 tion, wrote him a letter to the following effect: — " I have made 

 you ; if you will not remain with me, do not at least join my enemies." 

 Saleh Khan on receipt of this, determined to stand neuter, and went off 

 to his fort at Laush. 



Hadgi Feroze wishing to get Jorraine and its dependencies for him- 

 self, sent Dost Mahomed Khan Populzye with an army to take it, and 

 Shah Pussund, who had no stores laid in to enable him to stand a siege 

 gave up Jorraine, on consideration of being allowed to keep Laush. 

 Dost Mahomed soon after, desirous of returning to Herat, insisted on 

 Saleh Khan's leaving the neighbourhood, and that Khan, who had no 

 power to refuse, went off to Kamraun, who was now governor of Can- 

 dahar. The prince received him kindly, and kept him six months ; after- 

 wards quarrelling with his manager, (Gool Mahomed Khan Populzye,) 

 he gave Shah Pussund his place. In this situation he continued for nine 

 or ten years, and Laush and Jorraine had again come into his possession, 

 the garrison having ejected the governor left at the latter by Dost Ma- 

 homed, and given the place to the Ishaukzyes. 



At the seizure of Shah Pussund Khan at Herat (Conolly, vol. ii. p. 408) 

 he led a most eventful life, till the death of Mustapha Khan (Ibid, 413 ;) 

 during that period he wandered from place to place perpetually and 

 with much success plotting against Kamraun ; making friends at differ- 

 ent times with the rulers of Khaff, Toorbuk, Meshed, &c. He even 

 visited Teheran, and was well received by the king of Persia. He 

 more than once gained and lost Jorraine, Turrah, Anardurch, and 

 Killah Rab ; but he failed to get possession of Laush. 



He was now Kamraun's minister at Herat ; the prince gave him 

 Furrah and Jorraine ; but still with jealous care guarded Laush for him- 

 self only. At the request, often repeated, of Saleh Khan, he consented 

 to sign a paper, purporting that that fort was the Khan's, who pretend- 

 ed that his reason for demanding such a document, was to save his 

 honour in the eyes of his tribe. 



A year had elapsed, Kamraun had forgotten the paper, when all of a 

 sudden a messenger of Shah Pussund's arrived at Laush with a letter 

 to the governor from the Khan, enclosing the document sealed and 

 attested by the Shahzadah, and requesting the delivery of the fort, ac- 

 cording to the tenor of the enclosure to a person of his appointing. The 



