This sketch was taken on the summit of the pass of “Dundan Shikun,” (the Tooth-beaker, so called from its steepness and difficulty,) on the occasion of a meeting between the political agents, Dr. P. Lord, and the Walee, to arrange the terms of a treaty of peace. The Uzbek Chief, impressed with a dread of our conquests extending beyond the Affghan frontier, secretly promoted a confederacy among the petty states of Toorkistan, with a view of repelling any encroachments to the North of Bameean, and espoused the cause of Dost Mahomed, after his escape from Bokhara, on the promise of being made his minister in case of success. But that Chieftain having been defeated by Colonel Dennie, the Walee deemed it expedient to request an interview with the British authorities. Each party was to consist of only ten persons, but the Uzbek's dread of treachery induced him to keep a body of two hundred of his followers within call. A carpet was spread on the ground, and the attendants having been ordered to a distance out of hearing, a viva voce treaty was concluded. The features of this man-selling Chief are not prepossessing. He is short in stature, and his habit of keeping one eye closed gives a sinister cast to his countenance. Unlike the generality of this tribe that have but few straggling hairs on their faces, his beard is rather full. The custom of wearing as many as four or five “chuppuns” or cloaks, gives him a stout appearance. Moola Wulee Shah, his minister, stands by him. Both are dressed in the striped chintzes so universally worn in Toorkistan. Their legs are encased in rolls of cloth in lieu of stockings, over which are drawn thin boots without soles, and then the large heavy ones always worn when out doors. The two attendants holding Jazaeel’s (long matchlocks) are clothed in shirts of mail, capable of resisting the cut of a sword. The one with a broad belt round his waist, carries the Walee’s tea service in the leathern cases attached to it. Without the means of drinking his favourite beverage no Chieftain ever travels. They partake of it with salt, instead of sugar, and sometimes mix it with fat. The Uzbecks are inveterate slave dealers, (a traffic abhorred by the Afghans,) and the inhabitants of the Huzzareh villages on the frontier are in constant dread of their merciless forays for this purpose, the rapidity of their movements and overwhelming numbers depriving these wretched people of all hope of successful resistance. The Walee of Khooloom took no part in the late insurrection in Afghanistan; but since the flight of Ukbar Khan before the victorious armies of Generals Pollock and Nott, he has furnished him with a strong escort of Uzbeck horsemen to enable him to return to Kabul as soon as they have evacuated the country.