Khan Shirin Khan Qizilbash
and his support to Shuja Shah Durrani
Halt.―This
was a morning of great interest and excitement throughout camp. The Shah had
come up with tidings of the flight of Dost Mahomed Khan. Khan Sheereen Khan,
the chief of the Khuzzilbashes, in Caubul, passed by our tents at eight A.M.,
with a cortège of between fifty and a hundred horsemen, all richly dressed, to
tender his allegiance to the king. A great number of other chiefs and their
adherents, and several thousand Khuzzilbashes, also flocked to the royal
standard in the course of the day. Three elephants, too, were brought into the
Shah’s camp by the body-guard of Dost Mahomed. But, stirring as the moment was,
there was neither bustle nor confusion, noise nor acclamations, among the
chiefs and the people, in thus coming to the support of the restoration.
James Atkinson, The Expedition into Affghanistan:
Notes and Sketches Descriptive of the Country, Contained in a Personal
Narrative during the Campaign of 1839 & 1840, up to the Surrender of Dost
Mahomed Khan, London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1842, p. 252.
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