Marching out of Kohāt, we took the Hangū-road for Bangash. [Sidenote: Fol. 147.] Between Kohāt and Hangū that road runs through a valley shut in on either hand by the mountains. When we entered this valley, the Afghāns of Kohāt and thereabouts who were gathered on both hill-skirts, raised their war-cry with great clamour. Our then guide, Malik Bū-sa`īd _Kamarī_ was well-acquainted with the Afghān locations; he represented that further on there was a detached hill on our right, where, if the Afghāns came down to it from the hill-skirt, we might surround and take them. God brought it right! The Afghāns, on reaching the place, did come down. We ordered one party of braves to seize the neck of land between that hill and the mountains, others to move along its sides, so that under attack made from all sides at once, the Afghāns might be made to reach their doom. Against the allround assault, they could not even fight; a hundred or two were taken, some were brought in alive but of most, the heads only were brought. We had been told that when Afghāns are powerless to resist, they go before their foe with grass between their teeth, this being as much as to say, "I am your cow."[892] Here [Sidenote: Fol. 147b.] we saw this custom; Afghāns unable to make resistance, came before us with grass between their teeth. Those our men had brought in as prisoners were ordered to be beheaded and a pillar of their heads was set up in our camp.[893] Next day we marched forward and dismounted at Hangū, where local Afghāns had made a _sangur_ on a hill. I first heard the word _sangur_ after coming to Kābul where people describe fortifying themselves on a hill as making a _sangur_. Our men went straight up, broke into it and cut off a hundred or two of insolent Afghān heads. There also a pillar of heads was set up. From Hangū we marched, with one night's halt, to Tīl (Thāl),[894] below Bangash; there also our men went out and raided the Afghāns near-by; some of them however turned back rather lightly from a _sangur_.[895] (_g. Across country into Bannū._) On leaving Tīl (Thāl) we went, without a road, right down a steep descent, on through out-of-the-way narrows, halted one night, and next day came down into Bannū,[896] man, horse and camel all worn out with fatigue and with most of the booty in cattle left on the way. The frequented road must have been a few miles to our right; the one we came by did not seem a riding-road at all; it was understood to be called the Gosfandliyār [Sidenote: Fol. 148.] (Sheep-road),—_liyār_ being Afghānī for a road,—because sometimes shepherds and herdsmen take their flocks and herds by it through those narrows. Most of our men regarded our being brought down by that left-hand road as an ill-design of Malik Bū-sa`īd _Kamarī_.[897] (_h. Bannū and the `Īsa-khail country._)