text:  Early in September however Captain Hay who was with a small force in the Zoormut valley situated nearly west from Ghuznee and south from Cabul having been induced by the representations of Moollah Momin--the collector of the revenues who was a Barikzye and a near relation of one of the leaders of the insurrection in which he afterwards himself took an active part--to move against a fort in which the murderers of Colonel Herring were said to have taken shelter the inhabitants resisted his demands and fired upon the troops