[111]. Now the 14th Ferozepore Sikhs.
[113]. For further details of this abduction see Warburton’s Eighteen Years in the Khyber.
[114]. The villages in the Sisobi Glen are inhabited by Mullagoris, a comparatively insignificant tribe of doubtful origin, and therefore rather despised by their neighbours. They number about 900 fighting men, and the bulk of the tribe live north of the Kabul river and to the west of the Peshawar border, owning the Tartara mountain, 7000 feet high, valuable as a sanatorium and as a position of considerable strategic importance. For further information about the Mullagoris see Chapter IX.
[115]. Now the 6th Jat Light Infantry.
[116]. For details of this march, see the narrative of Surgeon-General Ker-Innes.
[117]. King of Islam.
[118]. The requirements of expeditionary carriage always weigh with especial hardship on the Punjab; during the summer of 1897 the Deputy Commissioners in that Province impressed about 100,000 animals and 25,000 owners, and of these numbers not one in five was actually required and sent to the front.
[119]. For much of the following I am indebted to Captain A. K. Slessor’s Tirah Campaign—being No. 5 of the “Derbyshire Campaign Series,” printed for regimental circulation.
[120]. Quotation is here again made from Captain Slessor’s book.