CHITRAL AND THE N.W. FRONTIER CAMPAIGN. 508 Bagh was fired on by the Afridis. They were driven off by the mountain guns,but in the fight the Scottish Borderers had Captain MacLaren wounded,and the 3rd Goorkhas had one man killedand three wounded. Inthe afternoon the second brigade turned out to disperseagathering ofthe enemy to the eastof thecamp. Lieutenant Caffyn, of the Yorkshires, was badly woundedin this action. At dusk, as a picket of the 36th Sikhs movedout into the outpostline they were fired upon,and oneof them was wounded. On the 6th the Afridis attacked a convoy south of the Arhanga Pass. On the same day they attacked a foraging party of the 15th Sikhs, killed a native officer and a sepoy, wounded five others, and stampeded and captured forty mules. After dark they fired heavily for some hours into the Maidan Camp. Several men were killed and wounded. "It was unusually bad about dinner time, seven p.m.," writes Colonel Hutchinson,"and amongst other casualties Lieutenant Giffard, of the Northampton Regiment, waskilled, andCaptain Sullivan,36th Sikhs,severely wounded. Poor Giffard hadbeen sitting at the head of the table, and as the fire became hot he shifted his seat to one which seemeda little moresheltered,sayinglaughingly, 'This isn't good enough;I'm going to move.' He had hardly reached his new place when he was shot dead. It was very sad. His funeral the next day was attendedby Sir William Lockhart, with the headquarters staff, and all the officers incamp not on duty. Captain Sullivan's luck in beinghit was very bad. He was not long ago invalidedto England from Suakim,but managed to pass the Board, and hurried out to India as soon as he knew his regiment was going to the front. He had succeeded in overtaking us this very day at about 11 a.m., and was shot, and of course placed hots de combat for the rest of the campaign, the sameevening. Such is the fortune of war!"

lateral valley, running up north-eastwards to Hissar, and knownas the KhurmanaDefile. On November6thhe pushed a reconnaissance for six miles up the defile. The ground was very difficult, but during the advance no opposition wasoffered by the enemy. As soon,however,as the column began to retire to its camp, the tribesmen came crowding among the rocks on either sideand firing on the mass ofmenretiring through the defile. To hold them in check a strong rearguard covered the retreat, throwing out pickets on to the hills on either side, which retired to new positions as soon as a second line of pickets hadbeen formed to check the pursuit. This alternate retirement went on like clockwork, and the enemy was successfully held at bay. But closeto the camp a disasteroccurred.

A picket of the Kapurthala Sikhs had been signalled to retire, and it was believed thatit wassafely on its way to the camp. But it seems to have lost its way among the rocks, and its furtherretreatwas cut offby theenemy. Strange to say, its absence from the column was not noticed,and the battalion to whichit belonged even reported all present when the camp was reached. It wasonly later on that ColonelHill wasinformed that a native officer and thirty-five men of the Kapurthala Infantry were missing. By this time night had come on,and the whole of the littlepartyhad been massacred, the Sikhs refusing to surrender, and fighting to the last against overwhelming odds.

Three days later a similardisaster occurred to a British detachment near the Maidan Camp. On November 9th General Lockhart ordered a reconnaissance to be made to Saran Sar, to the eastward of the camp,where a pass leads overthe hills into the Bara Valley. General Westmacott was given the command of the force detailed for this work, and General Lockhart went out with the expedition. The troops engaged in it were the Northamptons, the Dorsets, and the 15th and 36th Sikhs, with two mountain batteriesand a company of engineers. On the next day, Sunday, the 7th, the second brigade was fired on during the morning church parade, a bullet whizzing unpleasantly near the chaplain. Next eveningCaptainE.Y. Watson, of the Commissariat Department, was shot while sitting at dinner, and killed on the spot. Before following further the daily record of events at the Maidan Camp, we must note an unfortunate affair that occurred in this same second week of November, further west, in the Kurram Valley. Colonel Hill, commanding the Kurram Column, had advanced to the neighbourhood of Sadr, at the mouth of a narrow Twomiles from the camp the enemyappeared gathering on the hills,but dispersed when the mountain guns opened fire, and the infantry formed for attack andbegan to advance. After this there was no opposition. By 11 a.m the Pass of Saran Sar had been occunied. For some threehours the troops remained halted on the crest of the hill, while the survey officers completed their work. At two p.m. orders were given for the retirement toMaidan Camp to begin. Though there were no Afridis in