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- 15 - bad; and wrote to his brother Shhuhsaja, the governor at Peshawar, to send him the help of the Sadu Zai and the men of Kyber. At night the king, togather his his favourite Wafadar Khan, and other of his followvers took refuge in the fort of a Shinwari named Ashiq near Jagdaluk. Whilst the Shiwari was attending to the wants of his visitors, yet took the chance of sending a word to Mahmud; and a brother of Fatheh Khan-one named Asad Khan-was sent out to capture the king; and Shahshuja despatched Abdul Karim Khan from Peshawar to relieve his brother-the king, tolalbad. But Asad Khan hastening his steps, managed to capture the king and his faithful minster, and brought them to Kabul. Wafadar Khan was assassinated; Zaman Shah, by the order of Mahmud was rendered blind and was flung in a dungeon at Bala Hisar. HIFTH ARTICE * * * IN THE FORT OF ASHIK. THE SHINWARI. The term of sovereignty ofan important Saduza iking, Zaman Shah the son of Timour Shah, terminated due the circumtances, which could not even find a place in the mind of that king. The turn of the events was atonce tragic and fearful, because that which haPpened not only cost the king his throne; his eyes but that he had the mifortune to be cast into the prison to live a life of utter misery and want. * * * Most of the contemporay events of Afghan history have been plunged into dramatic atmosphere; so that a large number of the big and small incidents in relation thereto appear form behind the background of history in an envolved shape and have an appearance of unexpected turns and of bafflements; vhich in the term ued by the Euopeans are regarded merely as "in the current of events of history." The appearance of Zaman Shah, an important Sadu Zai king, at the fort of one Ashik the Shinwari, in itself is not an extraordinary incident or happening; but those matters which took