1843.] Journal of a Tour, $c. 565 



he became adjutant of the regiment Abdu Samad raised for Dost 

 Mahommad Khan ; and as such, was present in the action fought at 

 Candahar on the 2nd July 1834, with Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk. 



On his return to Cabool, he quarrelled with his patron and com- 

 mandant on the subject of the uniform of the regiment, which he refused 

 to wear, threw up his appointment in disgust, and retired from the 

 service. 



Quitting Cabool, he proceeded via Peshawur to Attock, where a 

 display of his " patahahs" or crackers, procured him for a time 

 employment with Cashmeeree Singh, one of the sons of Maharajah 

 Runjeet Singh, whom he accompanied to Lahore, from which place he 

 requested leave to return home to Persia, the value of his services not 

 being fully appreciated, and I therefore, according to his account, en- 

 countered him on his road to Persia via Scinde. 



From Karabagh we proceeded via Rawal Pindee to Attock. At 



this latter place, I planned and proposed to Agha Abbas this tour, 



which he agreed to attempt. Furnishing him with 

 Tour proposed. ^ 



minute instructions, a small advance of money, a 



Persian writer and a guide, I dismissed him ; and again separated from 



Captain Burnes and proceeded up the river Indus to explore the fords. 



On my return to Peshawur from this trip, Agha Abbas, to my 



*_ . , ... astonishment, again presented himself, with a doleful 



Threatened failure. D r 



story of his two companions having deserted him 

 at Rawal Pindee. 



Leaving the choice of fresh men to his own discretion, and making 

 him a further advance of money, I again dismissed him ; and did not see 

 or hear of him, until on the completion of his journey, he joined me 

 at Candahar in the early part of 1838, with the following account of 



pm his labours and adventures, which has been translat- 



Completion of Tour. 



ed, partly from his original account written by his 



companion from his own dictation ; and partly from his answers to ques- 



., . tions put by myself, on subjects he had at first either 

 Nature of compilation. r J J J 



entirely omitted, or only slightly touched on. 



N. B. — It must be borne in mind, that as only the four cardinal 

 points of the compass are used as bearing : a " North" 

 bearing has a range from " North-West" to "North- 

 East," and in like manner the other three points. 



