text:  For eight hundred years ever since the earliest invader under the Prophet's banner (Mahommed of Ghuznee ) the Affghans had been the scourges of India; for centuries establishing dynasties of their own race; leaving behind them populous nations of their own blood; founding the most warlike tribes in Hindostan; and not content with this representative influence in the persons of their descendants continually renewing their inroads from the parent hives in Affghanistan