. Winter India . IN llli; KIIYRKK IASS. THROUGH KHYBER PASS WITH THE CARAVANS 289 Colonel Warburton made levies of tribesmen, con-stituted them the Khyber Rifles, to police and guardthe pass, and assigned them to six fortified postsbetween Jamrud and Lundi Kotal, A force of eighthundred infantry and thirty troopers were recruitedfrom the wild robbers of the region and set to keep-ing off the other robbers. The infantry were paidnine rupees a month, the troopers twenty-six rupees,each man providing his own khaki uniform, andthe trooper the keep of his own horse. Their com-mander. Colon
. Winter India . IN llli; KIIYRKK IASS. THROUGH KHYBER PASS WITH THE CARAVANS 289 Colonel Warburton made levies of tribesmen, con-stituted them the Khyber Rifles, to police and guardthe pass, and assigned them to six fortified postsbetween Jamrud and Lundi Kotal, A force of eighthundred infantry and thirty troopers were recruitedfrom the wild robbers of the region and set to keep-ing off the other robbers. The infantry were paidnine rupees a month, the troopers twenty-six rupees,each man providing his own khaki uniform, andthe trooper the keep of his own horse. Their com-mander. Colonel Islam Khan, who drilled andbrought the corps to such efficiency and roused inthese hill guerrillas the military pride that seemedto animate them when once inside the Queens uni-form, is a descendant of the former ruling Afghanfamily, and served with the British in the last Af-ghan war. On caravan days his sentries were sta-tioned at every hundred yards along the pass, troop-ers patrolled it, and the Khyber was
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