text: [15] The Barukzye sirdars have repossessed themselves of Candahar whence they are believed to be plotting with the dispossessed Ameer of Meerpoor in Scinde against the British; while at Herat the very _fons et origo mali_ the sons of Shah Kamran have been expelled after their father's death by the wily vizier Yar Mohammed who has strengthened himself in his usurpation by becoming a voluntary vassal of Persia! Thus has the Shah acquired without a blow the city which became famous throughout the world by its resistance to his arms; and the preservation of which as a bulwark against the designs of Russia was the primary object which led the British standards in an evil hour across the Indus