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a riding-road at all ; it was understood to be called the Gosfandliyar (Sheep-road), liydr being Afghani for a road, because sometimes shepherds and herdsmen take their flocks and herds by it through those narrows. Most of our men regarded our being brought down by that left-hand road as an ill-design of Malik Bu-sa'Id Kamari}
{h. Bannu and the 'Isa-khail country.)
The Bannu lands lie, a dead level, immediately outside the Bangash and Naghr hills, these being to their north. The Bangash torrent (the Kuram) comes down into Bannu and fertilizes its lands. South(-east) of them are Chaupara and the water of Sind; to their east is Dln-kot; (south-)west is the Plain (Dasht), known also as Bazar and Taq.2 The Bannu lands are cultivated by the KuranI, KlwT, Sur, 'Isa-khail and Nla-zal of the Afghan tribesmen.
After dismounting in Bannu, we heard that the tribesmen in the Plain (Dasht) were for resisting and were entrenching themselves on a hill to the north. A force headed by Jahanglr Mlrza, went against what seemed to be the Kiwi sangur, took it at once, made general slaughter, cut off and brought in many heads. Much white cloth fell into (their) hands. In Bannu also a pillar of heads was set up. After the sangur had been taken, the Kiwi head-man, Shadl, Khan, came to my presence, with grass between his teeth, and did me obeisance. I pardoned all the prisoners.
^ After we had over-run Kohat, it had been decided that Bangash and Bannu should be over-run, and return to Kabul made through Naghr or through Farmul. * But when Bannu had been over-run, persons knowing the country represented that the Plain was close by, with its good roads and many people; so it was settled to over-run the Plain and to return to Kabul afterwards by way of Farmul.3
1 Perhaps he connived at recovery of cattle by those raided already.
" Taq is the Tank of Maps ; Bazar was s.w. of it. Tank for Taq looks to be a variant due to nasal utterance (Vigne, p. 77, p. 203 and Map ; and, as bearing on the nasal, in loco, Appendix E).
3 If return had been made after over-running Bannu, it would have been made by the Tochl-valley and; so through Farmul ; if after over-running the Plain, Eabur's details shew that the westward turn was meant to be by the Gumal-valley and one of
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