It was a good enough army, part Queen’s troops, part Company’s, with British regiments as well as native ones, but it was having its work cut out trying to keep the tribes in order, for apart from Dost’s supporters there were scores of little petty chiefs and tyrants who lost no opportunity of causing trouble in the unsettled times and the usual Afghan pasttimes of blood-feud, robbery and murder-for-fun were going ahead full steam.
Flashman, p.80, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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