. The life and times of General Sir James Browne, , , (Buster Browne) . molested nor were there everany attempts at murders or fanatical attacks, while,when they got back to Candahar, they found that thetroops there, though reinforced from Bombay, were ina constant state of fidget and under fire all night. There is no doubt that the facts and incidents ofthe operations of Stewarts force, as there had beenso little fighting, were not so striking and interestingto the public as those of the Peshawur and Kurumcolumns; and Brownes disappointment at not ad-vancing farther was gre
. The life and times of General Sir James Browne, , , (Buster Browne) . molested nor were there everany attempts at murders or fanatical attacks, while,when they got back to Candahar, they found that thetroops there, though reinforced from Bombay, were ina constant state of fidget and under fire all night. There is no doubt that the facts and incidents ofthe operations of Stewarts force, as there had beenso little fighting, were not so striking and interestingto the public as those of the Peshawur and Kurumcolumns; and Brownes disappointment at not ad-vancing farther was great. But Candahar itself wasthe key of Stewarts position, and its distance, andeven that of Quetta, from British India was incom-parably greater than that of the positions reached bythe other two forces. So that, while the operations ofthe latter, including those in the Kurum country andthe Peiwar Kotul fight, and the seizure of the Shutur-gurdun Pass, had practically ended by the first weekof December 1878, it was only then that Stewarthad been able to begin work at all, and arrange to. DEATH OF SHERE ALI 193 cross the border from Quetta towards the KhojakPass and Candahar. When he began that advance,Shere Ali had already fled into Turkestan with theavowed intention of suing for the intervention andsupport of Russia; and Sir Donalds retirement fromKhelat-i-Ghilzie was simultaneous with the newsof the death of Shere Ali and of Yakoob Khansformal succession and immediate efforts to arrangefor terms of peace. But this withdrawal from Khelat-i-Ghilzie, whateverits cause, being in time of war, although no actualfighting occurred, suffered from the usual unpleasantconcomitants of all withdrawals or retreats, andgreatly harassed the work of the staff, especiallyof the supply officers; and Browne suffered muchfrom its inconvenience. An imaginary incident inthe negotiations during this withdrawal may bedescribed as between S., a supply officer, and N., anative merchant, who had hitherto
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