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- 23 - of his brother Humayun; he sent his head guardsman one named Hasan Khan to bring the blinded and unfortunate prince, when he reached Kabul, the Priuce Humayun was flun into the duegeon. THE PRINCE QAISAR. SEVENTH ARTICLE Al though Zaman Shah Sdau Zai had installed his young boy son, named the prince Qaisar, on the chair of govership of Kandahar, whilst the boy was hardly seven years of age, and plunged the boy into the votex of political difficulties; yet the turmoils of internal difficulties and discord, personal rivalries and domestic and family struggle, did not give the young boy any pecce. During the reign of his father-Zaman Shah the attaks of Humayun continued to disturb the peace of minds: till the small boy was flung into the dungeon. During the reign of his uncle, Shah Shuja become a pawn in the game of Fatheh Khan, the young boy had to flit about from place to place. Whatever, however, the minister wanted did not come to pass; and Qaisar, as a ruler lost his place gradually. * * * In the history of Afghanistan, especially that period which takes in the time of the sncond half of the 18th. century of Christian Era. in the turning and twisting of events, the nams of small or big princes had also occurred. These names, inspite of their not been significant as such, are yet of interest in regards to the passage of history. The princes, whom we style here as the little princes, are Ayub Shah, Shltan Ali Shah the prince Haydar, Prince Qaisar, Yunus, Fateh Jung, Jahangir etc etc. Those who had been appointed, as a rule, to reign by their fathers, or their uncles over large or small areas; all such persons had been the tools of their elders, or of the greater princes, or yet they had acted under the influence of theire more powerful inentors. Scme of the young princes had been plaled merely to fit a place in the scheme of things of those more powerful in the realm. As the places that these young men or youthes rwes