The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . m gun, fell near the mess-table,shot through the abdomen. Then orders came forthe Guides to clear the hills, which they at once did,driving the enemy before them and securing thesummits. Not until the afternoon of that day did themen obtain any food, having fasted more than forty-eight hours. Some of the sepoys had fasted evenlonger. The Guides remained on the hills that day, andwere joined in the afternoon by the 4th Sikhs, whohad come over on the rafts, and the two regimentsbivouacked together on the hills behind the
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . m gun, fell near the mess-table,shot through the abdomen. Then orders came forthe Guides to clear the hills, which they at once did,driving the enemy before them and securing thesummits. Not until the afternoon of that day did themen obtain any food, having fasted more than forty-eight hours. Some of the sepoys had fasted evenlonger. The Guides remained on the hills that day, andwere joined in the afternoon by the 4th Sikhs, whohad come over on the rafts, and the two regimentsbivouacked together on the hills behind the breast-works. During the night a thunderstorm came on,with very heavy rain, which lasted some hours andsoaked us thoroughly. The enemy were so close to the Guides whenthey dropped from the spur of the hill into the field THE GUIDES FIGHT 203 below, that they were actually hurling rocks downupon them, and it was only their own steadi-ness that saved them from a terrible they shown any signs of confusion the enemywould have been right in amongst them, and the. li 1 A I >AUi guns on the opposite bank would then have beenunable to cover them ; but they retired as slowlyand deliberately as though they had been on Battyes death was a serious loss. Hehad a wide experience of frontier warfere, and wasgreatly beloved by the Guides, who would havefollowed him anywhere. His body was taken down 204 THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN by an escort of cavalry, and was buried in Mardan,where he had spent so many years of his Peebles also was an officer who could ill bespared. He was a keen and rising soldier, and arecognised authority upon the Maxim gun, for whichhe had invented a carriao-e. CHAPTER XYI CURIOUS WOUNDS—THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE PANJKORA—ADVANCE UP THE JANDOL VALLEY—SKIRMISH AT GHOBAN—FLIGHT OF UMRA KHAN AND CAPTURE OF MUNDIA ANDMIANKILA ADVANCE OF 3RD BRIGADE TO DIR An interesting piece of information was elicitedsome time after the fi
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