[343] Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 4 (1885), pp. 41-72.
[344] Bismarck: Some Secret Pages, etc., vol. iii. p. 135.
[345] In his Life (vol. i, pp. 244-246) he also greatly blames British policy.
[346] See Col. A. Durand's The Making of a Frontier (1899), pp. 41-43.
[347] Colquhoun, Russia against India, p. 170. Lord Curzon in 1894 went over much of the ground between Sarrakhs and Candahar and found it quite easy for an army (except in food supply).
[348] Op. cit. p. 307. Other authorities differ as to the practicability of feeding so large a force even in the comparatively fertile districts of Herat and Candahar.
[349] Life of Abdur Rahman, vol. i. p. 287.
[350] For this work see The Life of Sir R. Sandeman; Sir R. Warburton, Eighteen Years in the Khyber; Durand, op. cit.; Bruce, The Forward Policy and its Results; Sir James Willcock's From Cabul to Kumassi; S.S. Thorburn, The Punjab in Peace and War.
[351] The Relief of Chitral, by Captains G.J. and F.E. Younghusband (1895).
[352] See The Punjab in Peace and War, by S.S. Thorburn, ad fin.