588 Some Remarks on tlie Origin of the Afgh&n people. [No. 6. 



In Akora when* this tale was told, 



The people were dismay'd ; 

 And when night came, the hero's corse, 



They from the field convey' d. 



It seem'd the latter day was come, 

 So sore aggriev'd were they ; 



And minstrels did their rebeks break, 

 Deep sorrow to display. 



Next morning from Akora then, 



Set out a mournful train ; 

 And to Pesh'awer bore the corpse, 



Of him so basely slain. 



The people of Pesh'awer wept, 

 "When they his fate did hear ; 



And then they laid the body in, 

 The grave-yard of Panj Pir !f 



Hakim ! lament for Abbas Khan, 

 That Khattak chief so bold ; 



Oh where ! the like of him, oh where ! 

 Shall we again behold. 



* Akora — is a small town about ten miles west of the Indus or Attok : it is the 

 chief town of the Khattak tribe. 



f "The grave yard of Panj Pir" — The Zi'aiat-i-Panj Pir, or the shrine of the 

 five saints, is situated about a mile south-east of Pesh'awer. 



