. A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed: with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition. with a loud laugh, in ridicule of any-thing so absurd, * Give me seven or eighthundred men, no disparagement to the 124 AFGHAN TRAIT. late brilliant exploit, and Id take thisplace any day! * But what are you to dowith the walls ? said I. Oh ! of course,he rephed, I mean that I must be insidethe walls first. Every Afghan or Patan,when excited in dispute, will boast of afamily, an importance, and a number ofadherents
. A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed: with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition. with a loud laugh, in ridicule of any-thing so absurd, * Give me seven or eighthundred men, no disparagement to the 124 AFGHAN TRAIT. late brilliant exploit, and Id take thisplace any day! * But what are you to dowith the walls ? said I. Oh ! of course,he rephed, I mean that I must be insidethe walls first. Every Afghan or Patan,when excited in dispute, will boast of afamily, an importance, and a number ofadherents that he can summon to his aidby the holding up of his finger,- whichno one ever heard of before; and though,like Owen Glendower, he cannot be pro-nounced a worthy gentleman, exceedinglywell-read, yet he would—if provoked bya disputant, or encouraged by a good lis-tener— hold him at least nine hours inreckoning up the several devils names thatwere his lackeys. I came away the nextday, not choosing to seek an interviewwith the young Sirdar; having been in-formed that he was in the habit of askingfor your sword, gun, pistol, or anything elseto which he might take a mahmuds pillars. CHAPTER V. Ghuzni—Koh-i-Nigar Khaneh Mountains—The Haza-rahs—The Fort of Ghuzni—Find one of Mr. Moor-crofts Servants—Sultan Mahmuds Minars—Goodoffices of the Kuzzelbash—Leave Ghuzni—Bunde-i-Sultan—Babers Account of Ghuzni—Topes—Visit toa Mine—Chahar Deh—The Nawabs Family—Cus- V26 GHUZNI DESCRIBED. toms of the Country—Ghilzyes and Dost MahomedKhan—Military Operations of Dost Mahomed—Attachment of Dost Mahomed to England—Hos-pitable Reception—Enter Kabul. Ghuzni is built at the foot of a long narrowridge of gypsum, generally rounded by thesoil that covers it, and in many places splitthrough by the protruding rock ^ It isprojected from the north to the south, andis elevated a few hundred feet above theplain, which extends to the east, west, andsouth of it.
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