The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-03
Ham Din,s Feud,

morning, DOSS!
1t was a big, burly Mahsud camel
driver Gas asoke. He .nck me Tor lbs
commissariat officer and wanted to do
some business connected with trans
port. / stared in amazement, and
asked him where he had learned Eng
lish. He answered, "Coolgardie, in
Australia 1T appeared that he had
actually found his way there as cam
ell driver ana had recently returned
with what was to him an immense for
tune.
AS to his reasons for taking the jour
ney he told me the following tale in the
evening, as we sat by the fire, with his
camels sleeping lazily chewing their
fodder in ring a short distance off.
This was the story:
My father was the son of Ham Din,
who had the second biggest tower at
Maxim, and whose younger brother was
Sharif Din. Ham Din grew rich and
strong, and had four sons, Ibrahim,
Var Mohammed, Ali Azghar and FAIL
Ahmad, who all grew up to manhood.
He had, besides, two women children.
Sharif had also woman child by a
slave girl of the Powindahs and two
SONS, Nizam Din and Sher Afzal Of
these Nizam Din went away to live in
the hills on the Bhittani border, and
there he built a tower with the pro-
ceedings of a successful raid on the SUI
LEHMAN Khe1s. Sher Afzal was a black
guard. His sister was-a woman.
Bah. Are they not all sisters of Ib-
lis? / know not how it was, be-
cause I was not then born, but Sher
Afzal and his sister decoyed one of his
women cousins to his home. In the
early morning as he slept his sister
came and bid him flee, for the sons of
Ham Din We're after him. Sher Afzal
arose, and after taking his sister and
the other woman with him, stole out.
He meant to go up narrow "tanga"
that lead to a narrow ledge by which
he might pass into the back of the hills,
and so up the valley to the pass to mis-
brothers. tower. AS he went UP the
sstanga' shot was fired and his sister
fell; but she was only wounded in the
shoulder, and not badly. The women
remained where they were, but Shar
lodging about the rocks till he caught
a view of the enemy. 1t was FAIL All
mad.
Creeping UP to within one hundred
yards Sher Afzal carefully fixed his old
matchbox on the forks and made a
dead aim at his Cousins broad Shout
ders Keeping his eye on his aim he
waited for moment till FAIL Ahnlad
slowly rose to peer over the bowlder.
He then lit the pan and the heavy
charge crashed into FAIL Ahmad's
spine. killing him outright.
AS soon as he was sure that FAIL All
mad was dead, Sher Afzal ran to him
and spoiled him of his rifle and other
weapons. Then, giving his old match
lock to the sister of the dead man to
carry, he went up the "tanza," and in
the middle of the day reached his goal.
But Nizam Din had no wish to be
drawn into a feud without cause, so he
babe his brother depart. Unfortunate
ly for him the injury done by FAIL All
mad to his sister had rendered him an
actor in the affair, and so, after some
bitter words, they agreed to STAY the
woman Sher Afzal had decoyed. This
they did, and threw out her body on
the path by which her brothers must
needs come to attack the tower The
news. of course, of this soon reached
Ham Din, who armed his sons and
about forty men and went off to attack
Sharif Din. Their coming was not ex-
pected so soon. The old man was shot
in the fields at the pillow, and his tower
looted and destroyed. The enemy then
10 Nizan0 hin q ND
his brother.
This was going out of the routine,
and was not strictly according to rule,
The score was an insult, a womanand a
man to Sher Afzal; and man and
much plumber and destruction to-Iam