Capitolo 9
Lord General John Keane that it was almost about to return in India while writing to
the time, it said 'the Mark my words, won't be long there in front of it is here
some signal catastrophe.' During the summer of 1840 they were troubles
both in the Kybers and the passages of Bolam. In the first one the tribes, exasperated
to enough benefits and not receiving, it attached the outposts and
plundered our shops; while in matters of Beloochistan it was so serious that
a British strength was expeditious, and it captured Khelat, the Khan that is killed,
and part of its territory gave above Soojah to Shah. [The footnote: In the
the life of Lord Robert Sandeman, recently published, that the is affirmed
the disloyalty attached of Khan of Mehrab that claimed him/it its life was on
subsequent investigation not inveterate.] Rumours from Central Asia also added
to our anxieties. Even if the failure of the Russian attempt on Khiva
some months it was known later, it excited the apprehension to the duration
among our political officers in Cabul. Mr. Alexander Burnes, during
the winter of 1839, express opinions that were curiously incoherent
him a with the other. 'I maintain', he said, 'that man to be an enemy to his
country that recommends a soldier to be situated of the west of the Indus;
'while to the same moment him defended on the advance of our troops
the Hindoo Koosh in Balkh, as to be ready to meet the Russian in
the following May.
Mr. that William McNaghten, the political and principal officer in Cabul anchors you/he/she has gone
further, and to April 1840 it not only exhorted one March on Bokhara, but also
it contemplated sending a Mission to Kokand, in order as him it said, 'to
you frustrate the rascal makeups of the Russian in that quarter.'
However, our position to that duration was sufficiently precarious without
adding to our anxieties from distant consignments in Central Asia, it also had
the Russian established him in the Principalities that to that
time was not the case. Not only it was Afghanistan same that beads with