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Shibar, of whom he made a great slaughter. Here Jan Tarakee came in ; 

 Nadir then returned to Candahar, leaving 4,000 men to besiege Kalat ; 

 when it fell, Jan Tarakee was left in command. 



Moosa-khan, father of Maddut-khan Isakzai Duranee, (surnamed 

 Dongee) conducted the Chapao on Shibar. The grave of Jan Tarakee 

 is on the top of Kalat, over the spring close to that of the Fakeer. He 

 had such power over the tribe as to have left the proverb behind him of 



" Wak da Khuda dai da Jan Tarakee." 



"It rests with (or depends on) God;" and Jan Tarakee, one of the 

 present Tarakee chiefs, Arzhegee, (1st July 1841,) is the son of Ala 

 Verdee, the son of Suleman, the son of Jan, the son of Meer-khan, the 

 son of Kasam, the son of Doulat, the son of Madoo, the son of Peroz, 

 the son of Nassoo, the son of Mummye, the son of Ahmed, the son of 

 Tarak. 



Nadir Shah conferred on Ashraf-khan the chiefship of all the Ghur- 

 ghushtees, and avenged him on the Hotaks by leading away captive 

 1,500 of their families to Hindustan, Turkistan and Persia. 



During the first part of the reign of Ahmed Shah, Ashraf-khan was 

 governor of both Kalat and Ghuznee, and he accompanied the Shah on 

 his first campaign to Hindustan. On his return the Duranee chiefs 

 persuaded the Shah, that Ashraf-khan was far too powerful for a sub- 

 ject. He with his son Haleem-khan were therefore invited to Candahar 

 and thrown into prison, and their seals were made use of to entice Allai- 

 yar from Ispahan, the Shah proposing to share his conquests with him. 



Allaiyar-khan on his arrival was also thrown into prison, and nothing 

 is known how these three met their fate; the wall of their prison by 

 some is said to have fallen on them. 



Although the above belongs to the history of Ahmed Shah, I men- 

 tion it, as of course his historian would neglect to do so. 



I met in the Ghiljye country, which I had failed to do at Candahar, 

 traces of Zamroot Shah of Candahar, on the 23rd August 1841. At 

 Dab-i-Pighai, not far from the shrine of Taroo Nika, on the brink of the 

 hill, the remains of a small fort are pointed out. Here it is said that 

 Zamroot Shah banished a mistress, by name Lolee, to employ herself in 

 agriculture and gardening, and that in her ignorance she planted parch- 

 ed wheat. A more beautiful view than from this position on a fine 



