My words are not without truth, because your arrival in Russian territory will make things worse.
* * * * * APPENDIX VII (cont.) _From_ GENERAL KAUFFMANN _to the_ AMIR OF AFGHANISTAN, _received at Mazir-i-Sharif on the 17th January, 1879_.
I have received your friendly letter, dated 13th Zel Hijja (=8th December, 1878).

In that letter you asked me to send you as many troops as could be got ready.

I have written to you a letter to the effect that the Emperor, on account of your troubles, had communicated with the British Government, and that the Russian Ambassador at London had obtained a promise from the British Ministers to the effect that they would not injure the independence of Afghanistan.

Perhaps you sent your letter before you got mine.

Now, I have heard that you have appointed your son, Mahomed Yakub, as your Regent, and have come out of Kabul with some troops.