[302] Lady B. Balfour, op. cit. pp.166-185, 247-148.
[303] Ibid. pp. 246-247.
[304] Lady B. Balfour, op. cit. p. 255. For a defence of this on military grounds see Lord Roberts' Forty-One Years in India, vol. ii, p. 187; and Thorburn's Asiatic Neighbours, chap. xiv.
[305] Parl Papers, Afghanistan, No. 1 (1878), pp.242-243; ibid. Central Asia, No. 1, pp.165 et seq.
[306] For details see Russia's Advance towards India, by "an Indian Officer," vol. ii. pp.109 et seq.
[307] The alleged treaty is printed, along with the other documents, in Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 1 (1881), pp. 17-30. See also Lord Roberts' Forty-one Years in India, vol. ii. p.477.
[308] Duke of Argyll, The Eastern Question, vol. ii. pp. 504-507.
[309] The Causes of the Afghan War, pp. 305 et seq.
[310] Parl. Papers, Afghanistan, No. 1 (1880), p. 171.