Chapter II

Dost Mahomet usurps the throne of Afghanistan--Meerut division
ordered to assemble five miles from Delhi--The King inspects
our army--Pass through Maharajah Rimjut Sing's country--The
Punjaub--Sir H. Vane--Hindoo Koosh--General John Keane--Cross the
attack--Sufferings on the Sandy Plain--Valley of Shaul--Entrance
to Bolam Pass--Lieut. Imvariety--Candahar--Crowning
Shah-Soojah--Through the Pass--First sight of Dost's Army--Battle
of Ghuznee--Storming--Col. Sale--Citadel sacked--Feelings
after Battle--Natives--Orders received for Cabul--March--Cabul
Camp opposite city--Enter--Supposed some of the Lost Tribes
of Israel--Proof--Affecting scene at the Death of Colonel
Arnold--finding of two old tombstones with date 1662--Russian
ambition--Elphinstone left to protect Shah-Soojah--Back to
India through the Kyber, swarming with Kyberees--Dost and
his commanders prisoners with us--General Avetavela escorts
us through Peshwa--Punishment of Robbers--Crossing the
Boundary--Meerut--Memorial 30

CHAPTER III.

Native sobriety and European drunkenness--Hindoo Mahoram feast
Ceremony--Native habits--Shooting Sandgeese, Ducks, Parrots,
Monkeys--Report of death of Shah-Soojah--Akbar Khan assumes
the government--General Elphinstone retires--Mr. McNaughton
killed--Massacre in Guddulock Pass by Akbar Khan--44th foot cut
to pieces--A few escape to Jellelabad--Colonel Denny--Major
Havelock--Colonel Sale attacks Akbar--Denny killed--Havelock in
command--General Pollock pushes on from Bengal--Doctor Brydon--His
miraculous escape through the Pass--General Nott ordered to
Ghuznee--Pollock reinforces Sale--Lord Auckland succeeded by Lord
Ellenborough--The Gates of the Temple of Somnuth--The Maharajah
of Lahore pays his respects to Lord Ellenborough--Durbar at
Delhi--Review before the King and Indian Princes--Meerut again--My
comrade Jaco--The Spaniel and Jaco 49