text:  It is true that the civil wars of the Affghans though frequent have never been protracted or sanguinary:--like the Highlanders as described by Bailie Nicol Jarvie "though they may quarrel among themselves and gie ilk ither ill names and may be a slash wi' a claymore they are sure to join in the long run against a' civilized folk:"--but it is scarcely possible that so many conflicting interests now that the bond of common danger is removed can be reconciled without strife and bloodshed