With Kelly to Chitral

square breakfast by 6 A.M., and punctually at seve

ce cons

y, 40 Kashmir Sappers, 2 Mountain

force our way through seventy miles of bad country, but still

esh feeling in the air, sort of day that makes you want to tak

is was not much above the men's knees. This gave the Levies time to get ahead and send some scouts up the hills to the right, in order to give timely warning if the enemy should try on the rolling stone dodge, but the hills just here did not lend themselves very readily to this mode of warfare. When our little a

perpendicular, varying from two hundred and fifty to three hundred feet in depth, with a small stream running along the bottom, the amount of water depending on the melting of the snow in the hills above. There are two places to cross it, one the regular road to Chitral,

rather more pronounced at the foot than at the top near the hills, with the result that from

ter to any attacking force. In fact, the only obstacle is the nullah; but, as you may see from the photos, this obstacle is no small one,

Looking up the

s got on to the maidan and extended, while the main body formed u

in the firing line and exte

ovements, a gentle, grassy slope with plenty of room. The Levies, however, were not keeping close enough to the hillside, and were gradually pushing Peterson's compa

m the order, and then closed the Levies on their right. This made a gap into which we of the supporting companies pushed, so now we had two companies in the firing line, two in support, and the Kashmir Company in reserve. In this form

m the sangars on the spur, but not much at present from the lo

ngar No. 16. After a time Peterson engaged the sangars o

n action, and it was very amusing watching them; their instruction in volley

supposed to fire on the word "vollee." If any man fired before the order,-and they frequently did,-the section commander used to ru

nd, taking two of them, went forward up to the edge of the nullah to see if there was any sign of a road. We followed the e

d been turned towards others, so Colonel Kelly sent orders to Stewa

e hottest fire the whole time, as he had the attention of two big sangars entirely paid to him. The guns also got hit a bit, and among others two of the drivers were killed; they were the owners of the gun ponies, and remained with the ponies under a guard of four Kashmir sepoys, who had commands to

re we could get down, but we noticed a track which led up the opposite bank. We therefore turned back and retraced our steps till we came to a spot which we had examined before, but had thought impossible. Where we stood the drop was sheer for some seventy feet, but then there came a ledge, from which we thought we could scramble down on to the bed of the stream and up the opposite side, where we had noticed the track. We therefore hurri

issance Sketch of the

re Oldham's men were at work, and watched the proceedings. The men in No. 16 sangar had evidently had enough of it, their sangar having been pretty well knocke

d see the dust fly all round him-perhaps he'd drop, perhaps he wouldn't; then there would be another volley, and you'd see him chuck forward amid a laugh from the sepoys, and he'd roll over and over till he'd fetch up against a rock and lie still. Sometimes two or three would bolt at once; one or two would drop at each volley, and go rolling, limp and shapeless down the slope, until they were all down, and there would be a wait for the ne

we, thinking the whole company was coming, went scrambling down to the bottom. We slid down the ropes on to the ladders, and from them on to the ledge, followed it a bit along the cliff, and then down a shale and débris slope to the stream, across that

ook round to see

mpany coming down the

ed to have di

, till we could see what the game was. We now saw the Pioneers moving down the nullah towards the river, while at the same time the Levies showed on the ridge and took possession of the sangar. We were all right, I saw, so I gave the order to advance-keeping along the

nt. We opened fire, trying volleys at first, but the Sappers were useless at that, never having had any training, so independent firing was ordered. During the halt Moberly had a narrow shave, a bulle

oss our front, horse and foot, at about five hundred yards, so again we opened fire. Moberly and I both took carbines from the men, as they were firing wildly; the sepoy whose carbine I took invariably managed to jam the cartridge, partly his fault, and partly the fault of the worn state of the extractor. Gammer Sing was plugging in bullets quietly on my right, and gave me th

I accepted, as it was a matter of indifference to him whether he went barefooted or not. I sent him

nt in pursuit. Colonel Kelly came up, and we congratulated him, and there was a general demand for cigarettes, Moberly, I believe, being the happy

ons I asked was, what h

rst heard the follow

and they blazed up, and Borradaile, fearing an explosion, ordered a retirement of those troops nearest it to cover some thirty yards in rear, where they were protected by a wave of the ground. The enemy, seeing our men bolting, as they thought, rushed out of their sangars, but were promptly fired i

constructed of logs in the most approved fashion, evidently made by men who had been properly instructed. As I neared the largest sangar, I saw a native clothed in a red dressing-gown, sitting on the ground with a long native jezail. Rather surprised at seeing one of the enemy thus armed, I went up to him, and as I did so, he picked up his gun. I had my revolver on him in a second, and told him to

id, "your levy

, looking in a most bloodth

olently. I was afraid he was going to kiss my ruby lips, but he didn't. He and Akbar Khan then went s

s proposed to camp for the night. Part of the Levies and a company of the Pioneers were sent ahead to clear the village of any evilly disposed p

from start to finish. Our losses were six killed and sixteen wounded,

t so unsafe that it was determined to camp on the side of the river o

found, pickets thrown out,

arrival seemed half naked; we thought this was a sign of humility on their part, but I heard afterwards that the

ut being compelled to fight against us,

ness by providing coolies and supplies, all of which would be pai

ned into a beast of burden and given a load; and if he was an Adamzada, or nobleman, he was given the heaviest load that we could

. As often as not, we got into camp after dark, when the coolie simply put down his load and walked off; but as our

r the company of Kashm

ck to Mastuj, so now I

added to my numerous ot

tty well

according to their religion, and the wounded attended to and ma

connoitring down the left bank of the river

on duty, took some men and doubled out to see what was the matter. On his return, he reported the picket had he