The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . 3,800 feet in height,lies between Kashmir and Astor, and on theChilas road the Babusar Pass is almost equallylofty and difficult. Moreover, neither of thesepasses is open until the middle of June, so notroops could be sent through to Gilgit until the 32nd Pioneers, under Colonel Kelly,were there already. They had their headquartersat Bunji, and were engaged in making the road toChilas. Bunji is on the Indus, at the point wherethe roads from Astor and Chilas meet, and is onlythirty-eight miles from Gilg
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . 3,800 feet in height,lies between Kashmir and Astor, and on theChilas road the Babusar Pass is almost equallylofty and difficult. Moreover, neither of thesepasses is open until the middle of June, so notroops could be sent through to Gilgit until the 32nd Pioneers, under Colonel Kelly,were there already. They had their headquartersat Bunji, and were engaged in making the road toChilas. Bunji is on the Indus, at the point wherethe roads from Astor and Chilas meet, and is onlythirty-eight miles from Gilgit. An order was therefore telegraphed to ColonelKelly on March 21st to march at once, and asrapidly as possible, to Chitral. He left Bunji thesame afternoon, and started from Gilgit with anadvance party on the morning of the 23rd, therear-guard having to wait for No. i KashmirMountain Battery, which arrived from Nomal thatafternoon, and following the day after. The advanceparty consisted of two hundred of the 32nd Pioneersunder Captain Borradaile, Lieutenant Bethune the. WAZIR HUMAYUN 119 adjutant, Lieutenant Cobbe, and Surgeon-CaptainBrowning-Smith ; and the rear-guard of two hundredmore men of the 32nd Pioneers, under LieutenantPeterson and Lieutenant Cooke, two o^uns of No. iKashmir Mountain Battery, and a hundred menlevied from Hunza-Nagar and Punial, under thecommand of Akbar Khan, the Rajah of Punial,and Wazir Humayun, the Prime jNIinister of very fine specimens of native warriors. Wazir Humayun is the man of whom the follow-ing graphic description is given in Where ThreeEmpires Meet: Safdar Ali, it will be remembered,succeeded to the throne after murdering his father ;he then proceeded to expel the Wazir Humayunfrom the country, and appropriated his wife. Thetwo boys remained with their mother, whileHumayun fled to Chitral and became a firm allyof ours. He is described as a man possessed ofmany excellent qualities. It was known that he hadmany friends in Hunz
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