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lie wished the gate open that he might resume his journey. The 
party there advised him to wait until it got a little lighter, hut he 
would not consent; so they opened it for him. He had scarcely 
advanced a score of yards when he came upon a party of the enemy 
from Zor-mandda’i, who were lying in ambnsh for the Pala’i-wals. 
One of them, not knowing who it was, fired his matchlock at him, 
but missed. The guest began to call out, “ Do not fire ! do not 
kill me ! I am a guest!” The words had scarcely time to pass his 
mouth and had not, probably, been heard by the enemy, when five 
or six matchlocks were discharged at him, two balls from which hit 
him, and he fell dead on the spot. On making inquiry, the unfortunate 
man proved to be of the Utman-khel. The messenger also added on 
his own part, that knowing who the Ivhan Sahib was, if he should 
receive any injury from the hands of himself (Khurasan Khan), or 
his followers, the powerful tribe to which he belonged would burn 
his villages about his head, and root out all his people. Muhammad 
iEali returned with a favorable reply ; and on the morning of the 
18th August, we proceeded towards Zor-mandda’f, which is only 
about the distance of a cannon shot from Pala’i; but we were 
greatly afraid lest the stupidity of the Zor-mandda’i people might 
lead them to try the range of their matchlocks upon us, who would 
be in danger of our lives, whilst affording amusement to them ; as 
they relate of the Khaibaris, who, having seized a very stout 
traveller, thought it an admirable opportunity to try their knives 
upon him, and did so too; and, of course, killed the poor man. 
However, we passed Zor-mandda’i in safety, and reached Shir-khana’i, 
■where the Kiian Sahib obtained an interview with Khurasan Khan, 
the chief, who also strongly advised us not to proceed, as we could 
not have chosen a worse time for our visit to Suwat; but as before, 
the Khan Sahib, with true Afghan obstinacy, w T ould not listen to 
any advice or arguments tending to delay, or put off his journey ; so^ 
without staying at Shir-khana’i, we set out for Suwat by the Pass 
over the Morah mountain, which is hence called the Morey Icolat. 
About a mile or less from the last named village, we beheld to the 
right, as we proceeded, the road leading to the village of Upper Ba- 
ri-darali. We passed the road or path leading to the other village 
of Lower Bari-darah, which was also near; but a spur of the moun¬ 
tains intervening, hid it from our sight. These villages lie in the 
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