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-69- and even at Heart; but they were unable to execute this nefarious plan, and the boundry line between Afghanistan and In dia remained indefinte. * * * NINTH ARTICLE THE ENGLISH INTEREST IT HERAT MATTERS. The English after their first interference with matters Afghan, and even after that during the disturbances in the regions of the south of the Hindu Kush; were always at pains to bring Herat and the local Saduzai rule there under their sway. In the years 1837, 1838, and 1839. A. D. their agent, such as Pottinger, Stoddard and Todd in disguise reached Herat. They spent a great deal of money for strengthening of the army there, and in planning tactics in order gain an upper hand in the administration of the city of Herat. None of these manouvres succeeded, and the least amount of preference was not accorded to them by the wise minister of Kamran, one named Yar Mohamed Khan Alkozai. The Vazir did in effect repel the machinations of Russia and those of the Persians through the help of the English, yet with his establisihng offriendly relations with the Persians, he annulled the expansionist policies of England as well. * * * Progressively as the East India company marched on the norther regions of India from the Bay of Bengal; its officers saw themselves as the inheritors of the land; and the fertile territories of India to lie at their feet. Along with the expansion of the English power in India and the acquiring of territory; there was at back of their minds, of course, a thought of. the newly annexed areas. The penetraion of the English forces in India leuring the rule of Zaman Shah, and later after the territories of Ranjit Singh fell into their lot; mattrs so contrved that their implications were seen during such periods of our history as at the time of the rule of Shah Mahmud, Shahshuja, again during the rule of Shahshuja, then during the time of Amir Doust Mohamed Khan and Shuja and