PACIFICATION OF SWAT. 483 Government, and to surrender their rifles. A survey of the valley wasmade while thenegotiations wereinprogress. It proved to bea fertile country,producing heavycrops of wheat,barley, maize and rice. The vine grew freely on the hillsides, and the villages were made up of houses strongly built of stone. There were numerous ruins dating from the old Buddhist times, long centuries ago,and the chiefmeansof communication alongthevalley was theBuddhist road,paved with flagstones,and once troddenby thousands ofpilgrims fromCentralAsia. Several miles ofit wereingoodrepair.

But while Swat wasbeingpacified theoutbreak had extended to other parts of the frontier. It was the good fortune of the Government that these tribal risings came one after another, not in one vast simultaneous eruption. This latest rising was,however, the most formidable of all. While Swat was being pacified, in the middle of August, the standard of the Holy War against the Infidel had been raised through the Mohmund, the Afridi, and the Orakzai country,and the tribesmen had at last succeeded in capturing more than one of the frontier forts COLONEL R n. ADAMS, V.C (Photo: Watery.)