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the hill of Kalat, out of which very strong position every attempt of the 

 Duranees to dislodge them failed, with loss of men. 



The Duranees failing at Kalat, determined to carry away the Ghiljye 

 families which had been left for security on the Arghandah ; and they 

 boasted of this intention, calling to the Ghiljyes on the hill to ask 

 Dara-khan if he had any message to send by them to his women and 

 children. After the Duranees had started for the Arghandah, Dara-khan 

 taking his swars by a short road arrived at the Tarak or encampment, in 

 time enough, during the night to throw up a sangar or entrenchment 

 of loose stones. 



The Duranee detachment arrived in the morning, and were thrice re- 

 pulsed from the sangar ; but being disciplined troops, they were not 

 easily to be defeated. At this time some of the occupants of the san- 

 gar who were not fighting for their honor (wives,) left the sangar and 

 fled. The Duranees under cover of their laden ponies and mules, made 

 another attack, which proved successful, and eight members of one fami- 

 ly were cut down on the one carpet on which they were sitting. The 

 Duranees lost 100 men. 



This was the last battle between the Duranees, Tokhees and Hota- 

 kees. After this Abdu Raheem-khan and Shahabudeen-khan retired 

 to the Mammye hills. Shahzadah Shuja-ul-Mulk had also taken re- 

 fuge in the Kaker country, where he organized a powerful faction, which 

 Shahabudeen-khan and Fatteh-khan Babakar-zai joined, as did Shakar- 

 ulla-khan, the son of Abdu Raheem-khan Hotakee. On Shuja-ul-Mulk 

 becoming Shah, Fatteh-khan and Shakarulla-khan attended on him ; 

 but Shahabudeen-khan never did as long as he lived, for which the 

 Shah never forgave him ; and hearing of his having built a fort in Nawak, 

 Gulistan-khan Achak-zai, governor of Peshawar, was despatched to 

 destroy it ; Fatteh-khan Babakar-zai accompanying him. On enter- 

 ing the district of Nawak, so secure was the Achak-zai chief that Sha- 

 habudeen-khan would shut himself up in his fort, that he accepted 

 Fatteh-khan's invitation to dinner at his place, Jameeyat. 



Shahabudeen-khan getting intelligence of this, sallied out with his 

 cavalry and fell upon the Duranees as they were carelessly straggling 

 on to their stage, and routed the cavalry, killed the artillery men, burnt 

 the gun carriages, and spiked the guns, which remained there all the 

 winter. Next spring Sohbat-khan Popal-zai, being detached from Cabool 



