Here Sale and his officers paused to rest and recover for ten days—though, as the chaplain was quick to emphasise, it was a sober moment and “nobody indulged to excess in the use of spirituous liquors.” It was here that what remained of Macnaghten’s new Afghan regiment, the Janbaz, “broke out in open mutiny and tried to kill the English officers … It was now evident that the whole country had risen against us, and it was not a mere rising of the Ghilzai chiefs to get their subsidies restored.”
