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- 149 - Ghilzais. Akhtar Khan found his opportunity, for although the Durrani rulers had reduced the levy of revenues, and other adjustments had been made in the Dawari administration, but as the men of Dawar were very much against the foreigners they paid no attention to the reduction of revenues and other adminis- trative re-adjustments and backed by three thousand fighting men Akhtar Khan rose against the English. Macnaughton was now beside himself regarding the second revolt of Akhtar Khan, and wrote to Rawlinson that whose-ever could produce the severed head of that nobleman of Dawar, shall receive a reward of ten thousand rupees. The English authors writing of these matters, generally believed that every revolt of this description that raised its head was due to the individual interest of persons, and had always felt that the people of Afghanistan would be willing to come under the foreign yoke. Thus, they thought that Akhtar Khan had become their enemy for personal aggrandisement, and that his head could be purchased with money. All the English officers, and more especially Rawlinson himself at Kandahar could see that the position of the English in Afghanistan was getting precarious every day, and that a political deluge was about to come upon them one day. Macnaughton, sent out from Kabul one of his officers named Warburton of Shahshuja's force with a unit of the Fifth Infentry together with a cavalry unit and guns, the whole number of which was . . . . . . . ( incomplete . . . . . ) version in Persian has been omitted here, for on page 119 ( Persian version ) the material runs out; and page 120 of Persian Version begins with a quite different subject . . . . . . . ( translator. ) THE RISE & FALL OF KANDAHARI SIRDARS. ARTICLE: THIRTY NINTH As a result of the Barakzai Brothers, a feudal form of administration came into being in Afghanistan. But the Barakzai Sirdar at Kandahar and in its environs established