text:  James Skinner who after having been concealed in Cabul during the greater part of the siege had latterly been the guest of Mahomed Akber arrived in cantonments accompanied by Mahomed Sudeeq Khan a first cousin of Mahomed Akber and by Sirwar Khan the Arhanee merchant who in the beginning of the campaign had furnished the army with camels and who had been much in the confidence of Sir A