text:  Girishk the hereditary stronghold of the Barukzye chiefs about eighty miles west of Candahar was also dismantled and abandoned; and all the troops in Western Affghanistan were thus concentrated under the immediate command of General Nott whose success in every encounter with the Affghans continued to be so decisive that all armed opposition disappeared from the neighbourhood of Candahar; and the prince Seifdar-Jung despairing of the cause of which he had perhaps been from the first not a very willing supporter came in and made his submission to the British commander