316 An account of the early Ghiljdees. [No. 160. 



Although Bayai had 100 men in his fort, he always went out alone 

 on his expeditions, which were directed against the opposite Hotak fort. 

 It was his habit at dawn to attack the people of the fort as soon as they 

 came out, and he sometimes brought three and four heads, and no 

 one dared to meet him hand to hand ; at last the drinking-water of the 

 Hotaks became bitter, (i. e. they were hard prest) and they laid in am- 

 bush for him one morning ; and, hamstringing his horse first, succeeded 

 in killing him. On the death of Bayai, Kalat was taken possession of 

 by the Hotaks, and now Mahammad-khan, alias Hajee Angoo, the son 

 of Yaya, and nephew of Meer Wais, became governor. 



About this time the report of Nadir Shah's marching on Candahar 

 reached the country, and the Hotakees assembled and came to the deci- 

 sion that they had a new and powerful enemy in front, (Nadir Shah) 

 and an old one in their rear (the Tokhees,) and that it was prudent to 

 get rid of the enemy in the rear, and then meet the enemy in front ; there- 

 fore they collected their whole tribe, besides procuring 4,000 horse from 

 Candahar and from Puli Sangee, made a sudden attack on the Peerak- 

 khel Tarakut Umakai, which might be said to be empty, as the chiefs 

 Ashraf-khan and Allaiyar-khan, sons of Khushal, were absent on the 

 Arghandah to collect troops. The whole Torak was massacred, women 

 with child not being spared. On Ashraf-khan and Allaiyar-khan hearing 

 of this disaster, they took the most solemn oath an Afghan can, viz., 

 Zan-talak, that they would not spend a night at home before they had 

 revenged themselves on the Hotakees. Zan-talak is divorcement of a 

 wife. 



Proceeding via Mezan and Teereen, they joined Nadir Shah's camp at 

 Cheenaran, and tendered their allegiance. That monarch appointed Allai- 

 yar-khan his deputy at Ispahan, and was led by Ashraf-khan to Canda- 

 har, (Herat being taken after a siege,) which place it is said held out for 

 fourteen months. The heroic defence of the burj or tower of Mulla Alee, 

 a Ghiljye, after the fall of Candahar, deserves to be recorded. The ruins 

 of it are incredibly small in extent. 



When Nadir was besieging Candahar, Abdul Ghafoor was governor 

 of Kalat-i- Ghiljye; he with Abdul Rasool, were sons of Hajee Angoo, by 

 a Peerak-khel Tokhee mother. Abdul Rusool had gone to Sarobai of 

 the Kharotees, to collect the Ghiljyes of that neighbourhood to raise the 

 siege of Candahar. Nadir heard of it, and made a Chapao on the levies at 



