text:  It seems to us doubtful however whether they will be able to maintain themselves long unaided in this perilous advanced post: though the national animosity which subsists between them and the Affghans is a sufficient pledge of their good-will for the service--and their co-operation in the late campaign against Cabul has been rendered with a zeal and promptitude affording a strong contrast to their lukewarmness at the beginning of the war when they conceived its object to be the re-establishment of the monarchy and national unity of their inveterate foes