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- 117 - The morning of 23rd. July found Ghazni in pools of blood, and inside the city hell was let loose, for from every housetop fire rained upon the attackers; every street coner was the danger signal; every turn of the narrow passage was a battle field. Whatever booty was secured was heaped along the Kabul gate along the mounds of the slain Afghan warriors; whosever entered a house for loot, did not emerge alive from that house; both inside and outside neither party could keep any control, pandemonium reigned everywhere. The above mentioned narrator adds that about one thounsand and five hundred riderless horses galloped about, and even fought amongst themselves. To step into the street was to court positive death. The English writer, who took part in the battle says that he had seen so much cruelty, and disregard for human life that he disliked human behaviour, and that he abhorerd humanity itself. Ghulam Haider Khan, the son of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan-a young man of twentytwo years of age-the governor and defender of the city was taken prisoner with his six companions by Captain Taylor. On the 24th of July the dead were buried, and two hundred wounded and dead horses, too, were put under the sod. In the afternoon the silence of death reigned supreme in the fair city of Ghazni, doors were torn off their hinges, houses were demolished, the streets were deserted, and it looked that it was not a city of the living. Upon this silence sat the bloody regime of Shahshuja under the banner and protection of the English, and from one of the towers of the citadel flurted the ensign of the invaders. * * * THE VICTORY OF GHAZNI. (An extract of a passage from TUHFATUL HABIB, Vol,2-page 168.) " . . . . Shahshuja after the lapse of three months and settling the Kandahar affairs and of its environs entrusted the region to an Englishman named Leech and the Prince Fateh Jung, and accompanied by other English officers started on an expedition