The Delhi Gazette, of which we have received a file
to the end of August, publishes a letter from an officer who niarched with the army from Caudahar to Ghuznee. Ile says " The natural productions of the country we see nothing of: wild sheep and deer, or rather antelope, are said to abound in hills, but we have neither time nor would it be safe to go oiler them. The rivers produce but one kind of fish, very bony, not unlike a atakseer, but with smaller scales, and an inferior fish in every way ; but nathless it affords amusement to our hank Waltons, who are not chary of risking their lives for their dinners. We have met with no organized or regular opposition. Large parties of horse are perpetually threatening our flanks and rear, who cut off stragglers, plunder camels and baggage, and exercise their vocation. These render the utnicst vigilance necessary, especially in the rear-guards, and more particularly as all these plunderers call themselves 'the King's servants.' (f, Which King, Benzonian ? " ) If allowed, they mix with the line of march, and watch their opportunity ; and no prey is too small for them. In fact, we are getting daily more convinced that the grand character as soldiers acquired by the Atidians, is like the Shah's popularity, a passive merit. We have ever found themliars, murderers, thieves, unit cowards. They have never ventured to attack the smallest armed party, and never spare an unarmed camp-follower. Two of them yesterday cut the throat of a glass-cutter; and being alarmed, put 'him in the river; and 4e stood on his chest and, the other on a string which tied his feet together. . A surwan and one or two others, seeing them standing in this singular position la the water, approached them, and the former struck one of the Afghans ; on which he fell, and the corpse rose to the surface. This man was caught, sea the other ran away. The Shah has executed, by blowing them away front guns, several of these plunderers, who have been caught at different times,"
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