Note 63 — Chapter V
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Nor was this the only error into which Captain Seton had fallen. That officer was instructed, before Mr. Elphinstone’s Mission had been determined upon, to ascertain the practicability of sending an embassy to Candahar or Caubul, by the route of Sindh; and upon the strength of these instructions, had taken upon himself to address a letter to the King of Caubul, expressing the desire of the British Government to form an alliance with that monarch.