[32] Elphinstone's Cabul.

[33] Supr. p. 59.

[34] Gibbon.

[35] Thornton.

[36] Gibbon.

[37] Vid. Dow's Hindostan.

[38] Caldecott's Baber. Vid. also Elphinstone, vol. ii. p. 366.

[39] "Our victorious army bears the gates of the temple of Somnauth in triumph from Affghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmood looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of 800 years is at last avenged," etc., etc.—Proclamation of the Governor-General to all the princes, chiefs, and people of India.

[40] Gibbon. Universal Hist.

[41] Baronius, Pagi.