[292] Parl. Papers, Afghanistan, No. 1 (1878), p. 101.
[293] Lord Roberts, Forty-one Years in India, vol. ii. p. 247; also Life of Abdur Rahman, by Mohammed Khan, 2 vols. (1900), vol. i. p. 149.
[294] Argyll, Eastern Question, vol. ii. p. 347. See, however, the letters that passed between General Kaufmann, Governor of Turkestan, and Cabul in 1870-74, in Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 1 (1881), pp. 2-10.
[295] Parl. Papers, Afghanistan, No. 1 (1878), p. 107.
[296] General Jacob had long before advocated the occupation of this strong flanking position. It was supported by Sir C. Dilke in his Greater Britain (1867).
[297] Parl. Papers, Afghanistan, No. 1 (1878), pp. 128-129.
[298] Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 1 (1881), pp. 12-14; Shere Ali's letters to him (some of them suspicious) and the replies are also printed.
[299] Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 1 (1881), pp. 156-159.
[300] Ibid. pp. 225-226.
[301] Sir Robert Sandeman, by T.H. Thornton, chaps, ix.-x.; Parl. Papers relating to the Treaty . . . of 8th Dec. 1876; The Forward Policy and its Results, by R.I. Bruce; Lord Lytton's Indian Administration, by Lady Betty Balfour, chap. iii.
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