The dress worn when on service by the British officers of Shah Shoojau’s Janbaz Cavalry, was similar to that in which captain Lockyer Willis Hart, twenty-second regiment Bombay Infantry, who raised and commanded the second corps, is here represented. Afghans, Kuzzilbashes, and Toorkumuns, were enlisted at a fixed monthly allowance finding their own horses, arms and clothing. Many of the men held grants of land on the tenure of this military service, and it was expected that under British control they would gradually acquire a tolerable degree of discipline, and in time form an efficient body of national Cavalry attached to the monarchy. The troopers in the background are in the uniform latterly adopted by the second regiment. This corps served with credit at the battle of Bameeau, was present at Purwan Durreh, and afterwards formed part of Prince Sufter Jung’s escort when he was sent to the southward. They accompanied Captain Woodburn’s detachment when he defeated the insurgent Dooranees near Giriskh, and were honorably mentioned in the despatches for their spirited behaviour in the action at Secunderabad. Being stationed at Candahar during the insurrection, anxiety for the fate of their families in Kabul induced them to disband themselves, and set out for the capital, but their desertion was not preceded by the commission of any atrocity as in the case of the first regiment, the men of which so treacherously murdered their officers. The extraordinary mass of ancient towns and buildings on the summits of many eminences, called “Zohauk-i-Maran,” or Zohauk of the serpents, is situated on the road between Kabul and Bameean. Although bearing the name of a tyrannical Persian king, cursed, as the legend runs, with a living serpent springing from each shoulder, requiring human brains for their daily food, it is inferred by Mr Masson that like other analogous edifices in similarly secluded sites in Afghanistan, it was a place of sepulchral and religious privacy where the ashes of the illustrious dead of the land were deposited. Springs of water are found all over the mountain, but tradition is silent respecting the period when it was inhabited.