"يوميّات رحلة من بلاد فارس إلى الهند عبر هراة وقندهار. وأيضًا تقرير رحلة إلى العاصمة الوهابية، الرياض في وسط الجزيرة العربية" [و‎‎٦‎٥] (٢٦٨/١٢٩)

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for repose; and never in the spirit of weakness, seeking
support or soliciting forbearance.
3rd.~.That our policy above the Passes should be limited, as a
general rule, to observation, and to good-will, to an accept
ance of the status q\io, and to the maintenance of friendly
feelings towards the native Chiefs actually in power. That
our advice when solicited should tend towards settling and
rendering permanent both dynasties and boundaries ; and
that our words and actions should be in good faith and
conciliatory, to the end that while we asbtain from incon
veniently entangling ourselves in Afghan affairs, we might,
in the contingency of aggression from the westward, find
among the States above the Passes, an inclination to repel
the intruder, and rely on us, rather than to welcome the
intruder and^aid him in attacking us.
Ath. When we happen to find a sensible man in power
above the Passes, to give emphasis and publicity to our
relations with him, by embodying them, always however
at his solicitation, in the form of a Treaty limited to terms
of friendship; but ever bearing in mind the broad fact
that such engagements can be but temporary and personal,
and that no permanent political structure can be reared
with materials so shifting and untrustworthy as those to
be found in Afghanistan, where there exists no imper
sonal system of administration j where boundaries and
parties change with the Prince ; where the Prince himself
changes from prejudice or caprice ; and where every man of
influence pretends or aspires to sovereign power.
Applying some of the above general considerations to the
question of the Furrah District, as it at present stands, between
Dost Mahomed Khan, Saltan Ahmed Khan, and your Lordship's
Government, I would submit that since it would be just towards
Sultan Ahmed Khan that this portion of the Herat Territory
should be restored to him ; since its restoration would remove one
principal cause of present soreness and prospective strife between
him and the Caubnl authorities; and since its forming portion of