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On the fourth day the fort of Budiabad in the Lughman valley was reached, where Akbar left the prisoners while he went to attempt the reduction of Jellalabad. Sale's brigade, retreating from Gundamuk, reached Jellalabad on the 12th November 1841.
So when Sale's brigade, with a native regiment, a small force of cavalry and artillery, and a few engineers under the famous George Broadfoot, marched eastwards up the river Cabul, they discovered that the passes had all been blocked by the mountaineers, who were ready to spring out and attack the English from all sorts of unsuspected hiding-places.
On October 30th Sale's force reached Gundamuk without further molestation, and halted there temporarily to await orders.
There seems no relation between opportunity and the period of the inevitable outburst. If in November 1841 the Cabul Sirdars had restrained themselves for a few days longer two more regiments would have been following on Sale's track, and the British force in the cantonments would have been proportionately attenuated.
The Preliminary Discourse prefixed to Sale's Koran; and Professor Palmer's Introduction in S. B. E., vol. vi. Islam, by J. W. H. Stobart, in the "Non-Christian Religious Systems" Series of the S.P.C.K. Der Islam, by Houtsma, in De la Saussaye. Sell, The Faith of Islam, Second Edition, 1896. Margoliouth. Mohammed and the Rise of Islam, 1905.
Few gave; a careless quarter was added to a small number of pennies and nickels. Janin counted the sum with an unfamiliar oath. "That other," he directed, and drew a second preliminary bar from his uncertain instrument. "Here, you!" a strident voice called. "Shut your noise; the sale's going to commence." French Janin lowered the violin. "We must wait," he observed philosophically.
The time was approaching when Sale's brigade was to quit Cabul on its return journey to India.
The strange and bitter experiences of the captives, from that miserable January Sabbath day on which they passed under the 'protection' of Akbar Khan until the mid-September noon when Shakespear galloped into their midst, are recorded in full and interesting detail in Lady Sale's journal, in Vincent Eyre's Captivity, and in Colin Mackenzie's biography published under the title of Storms and Sunshine of a Soldier's Life.
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