The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . he opposite bank atAladand. On the loth headquarters and the 2nd Brigademarched to Gumbat, crossing the Katgola 3rd Brigade crossed the Swat river to Chak-dara, the ist Brigade under Brigadier-GeneralKinloch, , being left to guard the Swat Valleyand the communications. On the iith head-quarters and the 2nd Brigade reached the Panjkorariver at Sado ferry. There are two routes to theferry from Gumbat, one by the Shago Kas defile,the other by the Kamrani Pass. The formerroute was taken, as the pass route was
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . he opposite bank atAladand. On the loth headquarters and the 2nd Brigademarched to Gumbat, crossing the Katgola 3rd Brigade crossed the Swat river to Chak-dara, the ist Brigade under Brigadier-GeneralKinloch, , being left to guard the Swat Valleyand the communications. On the iith head-quarters and the 2nd Brigade reached the Panjkorariver at Sado ferry. There are two routes to theferry from Gumbat, one by the Shago Kas defile,the other by the Kamrani Pass. The formerroute was taken, as the pass route was reportedunfit for camels, but the Shago Kas road in itsoriginal state was such an intricate one, and was sovery bad, that all the labour of the force was after- 192 THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN wards put on to the other to make it fit for to the extreme difficulty of the defile thebaggage did not get into camp till very late thatnight, being fired into several times en roiite. Before I moved on from the Swat river anadvanced guard had been sent on ahead, consisting. ^WAT KI\-EK AND VILLACE. of the iith Bengal Lancers, two squadrons of theGuides Cavalry, the Guides Infantry and the 4thSikhs, which had arrived at Sado on the cavalry forded the river and reconnoitred upthe Bajour Valley on the loth, finding UmraKhans forts held, and on that evening owing to theriver rising, they experienced considerable difficulty THE PANJKORA RIVER 193 in recrossing to the left bank. On my arrival it wasclear that nothing but a bridge could get the troopsacross, and this was at once commenced by MajorAylmer, , Royal Engineers, with the 4th Com-pany, Bengal Sappers and Miners, under the directionof Colonel Leach, , Commanding RoyalEngineers with the force. The bridge was built onraft-piers constructed from the logs lying on thebanks of the river. On the evening of the 12thmen on foot could cross, and there being everyhope of my being able to cross the troops and
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