text: " If the accounts received may be depended upon our troops had scarcely cleared the Kojuck Pass on their way from Candahar to the Indus when that city became the scene of a contest between the Prince Seifdar-Jung and the Barukzye chiefs in the vicinity; and though the latter are said to have been worsted in the first instance there can be little doubt that our departure will be the signal for the speedy return of the quondam _Sirdars_ or rulers of Candahar (brothers of Dost Mohammed ) who have found an asylum in Persia since their expulsion in 1839 but who will scarcely neglect so favourable an opportunity for recovering their lost authority