312 An account of the early Ghiljdees. QNo. 160. 



This is absurd ; for by the Tokhee's own shewing, Shah Alam was 

 the son of Alee Malakhe's brother, so that Nazo was not a Shah Alam- 

 khel. 



Jabbar, the Ibrahim chief, was killed at Yayas in battle with the 

 Safees, and buried on the road between Cabool and Jalalabad. The 

 place where his tomb is situated is famous for cold, wolves, and thieves, 

 on which account some Persian traveller has cursed the tomb. In the 

 course of time, Nazo gave birth to Hajee Meer-khan, alias Meer Wais, 

 the same who liberated his country from the Persian rule, and his 

 countrymen from the tyranny of Shahnawaz-khan, the Georgian 

 governor of Candahar. 



The reasons for Meer Wais visiting Persia are found in Malcolm's 

 Persia, and more in detail in the Chronicles of a Traveller. The Ghiljyes 

 believe that while at Mecca he demanded a sign from heaven, that he 

 should free his country from a foreign yoke. It was given him. On awak- 

 ing, his sword was found lying bare at some distance from the scabbard 

 in which he had secured it before going to sleep. 



It was Shahnawaz's penchant for wine and women, that lost the 

 country for the Persians be it remembered, and he was a Faringee. 



Beyond the village of Chahil Dukhtaran on the road to Chahil Zeena, 

 there is a slippery rock called Ang-i-Sakhshak, down which the children 

 of Candahar on Fridays and other holidays slide. This was one of the 

 scenes of Shahnawaz's debaucheries. 



The place at which he met his well- merited death was at Bela- 

 i- Sultan Khudadad in Argasthan — he was following or despatching 300 

 horse across the Band-i-gil,* on the road to Maroof, to collect revenue 

 from the Kakers. He was not thought worthy to be killed by the hand 

 of a man ; so Murado, a Babee eunuch and jester, was ordered to kill 

 him in full durbar the day after his seizure. The following Pushtoo 

 Badala is still extant : 



" Shahnawaza bujul baza, 



Da Murado da las parotiya kuna w&za." 



* 1 find from a memorandum in my journal in November 1839, that the road from Can- 

 dahar to Deh i- Ambar was occupied by Popalzais, and that I proposed to make the fol- 

 lowing arrangements for the protection of the road beyond Deh-i- Ambar, viz : — On the 

 Candahar side of the Tagak Pass near some wells, a small fort to be built and eight 

 horsemen to be stationed ; on the other side of the Tagak Pass, at a place called Hou- 



