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44 fulness lay in their tendency to combine with the other Northern Powers and make a frontier barrier against any British advance.

It was during his residence at Nepal that the final anarchy among the Sikhs began, when the Nepális eagerly watched the progress of events in the Punjab. Henry Lawrence, it need hardly be said, kept, on his part, a sharp outlook on the Court, and on the excited feelings of the Nepális, while closely observant of the proceedings of the Sikhs and preparing in his own mind for their impending outbreak.