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governor to join us : upon this he insisted on my occupying a seat 



near him and partook of the fare, and in the evening sent me a 



" lyaf or coverlid ; under which, owing to its inhabitants, I got no 



rest. 



24th Ramzan. — Proceeded nine kos to Tak. The chief Alladad 



Khan, who was then an exile, is by tribe a DoulatkheL In 

 Tak. 



his late incursion, he burnt all the neighbouring villages. 



At Tak [i-Sarwar Khan] I found the following Sikh force ; viz. Jemedar 

 Mahommed Hashan, and one hundred sowars, and five zambooraks. 

 Chet Singh Kumedan with a like detachment. Lena Singh, with one 

 hundred ghorahchars. Saidar Ram Sing, with a like number, one hun- 

 dred other ghorahchars, dispersed in small bodies ; six hundred infantry 

 of the regiment of Futteh Singh Aloowala, one gun. Nadir Alee 

 Khan, Baloch Khan, and Mayan Khan, with forty horse, besides other 

 footmen. 



There is a smaller fort within the fort of Tak, called Narinj Kilah, 



within which there are three wells : and inside the outer 

 Citadel. . . „ , ■ 



tort gate are seven guns and twenty-nve zambooraks, all 



manned. Guns can be mounted on all the four bastions of the Narinj 

 Kilah, to receive which, there are " damdamas." The breadth of the 

 wall is four guz, There is an " alampana" or fausse braie, and a ditch, 

 nine guz broad. There are two gates to the Narinj, one to the east 

 near a garden, another to the west. There are seven gates to the 

 outer fort, called respectively, Nourang, Peer Dastgeer, Haz- 

 rat Eesa, Sarbanan, Mooree, Panch Tanpak, aud Maranee. The 

 fort is surrounded by gardens, around which again there is a wall 

 having three gates. Three sides of the fort are surrounded by broken 

 inaccessible ground. The only good approach is from the direction 

 of Dera Ismail Khan. The Doulatkhels amount to two thousand 

 fighting men, and are enemies of the Wazeerees. In the whole coun- 

 try of the Doulatkhels, there are two running streams ; one called Tak, 

 the other Kamal. To the east is Dera Ismail Khan, to the west Da- 

 raban, to the north the Myanees and Wazeerees, and to the south 

 the Gandapoors. The road from this to Cabool is almost impassable, 

 from fear of the Wuzeeree plunderers ; the general road taken by the 



Luhanee and other merchants, is from Daraban. The 

 Road to Cabool. ...... . rriI 



cultivation is carried on by running streams. Ihe 



