Rebellion of Mohammad Yaqub Khan [‎207r] (103/174)

1870. ] ABDOOL RAHMAN. ^5
548. la the end of September news came from Hamid* Khan, Surteep, at
* Diary ending 3rd October. Bokhaia that many of the refugees who
were with Abdool Rahman and Ishak W1
quitted Samarkand ; that the remainder, except Abdool Rahman and Ishak bad
been put under surveillance ; and that Abdool Rahman’s allowance had been dis
continued.^ Some of those who absconded waited on Hamed Khan and
were wihing enough to make their submission to Ameer Shere 5 Yli
but had no money to pay their expenses. Others, viz., Abdool Ruheem
Khan, Tokhee, and Nusseer Khan, made their appearance on the Oxus
crossed m it, and opened correspondence with the Toorkomans about Khoom-
i-ab. Alum sent a small force to try to surprise them ; but on hearing of its
t Diary ending 8th October. approach, they fled fw to Kirkee, where the
Bokhara authoritiesf apprehended them
and several others. The rest of their party escaped into the country of the
Kara Toorkomans. The Khoom-i-ab Toorkomans paid a fine of 12,000 Tungas
to avoid further consequences.—[Diary ending 13th October.]
The Ameer, on hearing this, told Alum to apply to the Ameer of Bokhara
for the rendition of Nusseer Khan and Abdool Raheem.
548. In the diaries during the first half of October, there is mention of
rumours that Ishak had gone from Samarkund to Maimena, and that Abdool
Rahman and the Meer of tiiat place were in correspondence.
On the 17th October news came from Hamid Khan, Surteep, in Bokhara,
that Abdool Rahmanreceived encouragement from Maimena : that Afghan
refugees were in the habit of getting away from Samarkund and going to
Maimena in the disguise of faqueers via Andkhoee and Shiburghan, the Meers
of which places gave them a few tungas; lastly, that Abdool Rahman had
certainly left Samarkund, whither Hamid Khan’s informant, Neaz Shah [the
bearer of the Ameer’s reply to General Kauffmann] knew not.
Simultaneously there w r ere in Afghanistan rumours of projected move
ments* among Abdool Rahman’s ad
herents.
Diary ending 21st October.
But the news of Abdool Rahman’s departure from Samarkund was contra-
_ dieted by a subsequent letter* from Hamid
* Diarv ending 10th November. ^ . ji iAii itai
Khan, saying that Abdool Rahman was
still there, had dismissed all his followers, except a few men of rank, and had
sold all but a few of his horses.
A still greater proof of his resignation to his lot was given at the same
time. Abdool Raheem, who had been apprehended by the Meer of Kirkee,
was by him sent on to the Ameer of Bokhara, and by him to the Russian Com
mandant, with the message that it was he probably who had given permission
for the fruitless expedition to trans-Oxus. He, in his turn, reproached Abdool
Rahman with having thus defamed him. Consequently, when Abdool Raheem
appeared, Abdool Rahman—
“rebuked him, and represented to all his followers: f So longf as Ameer Shere Ali Khan
lives, 1 shall not be able to gain over Afghanistan ;
Diary ending 10th November. if you remain (quiet ) wifch Ine , X sha U support you,
otherwise you are at liberty to do what you wish/ Consequently, many of his followers dis
persed towards Tashkund, Shuhr-i-Subz,’ and Bokhara, idle Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. himself f was reported to
he given'’ to debauchery and drunkenness/ 5
(а) They had not, however, done so, it turned out (diary ending 10th October) till Alum had written to the Meer
of Kirkee, reproaching the Bokhara authorities for letting loose Afghan refugees to commit mischief on Alglian territory,
whereas the Ameer Shere Ali had taken care that Surrah Beg should not injure the interests of the Ameer ot Bokhara.
(б) Alum, in a letter received on the 6th April 1871, said he had been told by several people from Bokhara
that, since the failure of this enterprise, in which Abdool Rahman bad acted without consmtiug ic au loritie^ t
Samarkund, he was little regarded by them.