512 NEGOTIATING WITH THE CHIEFS.

CHAPTER XVI GUERILLA WARFARE IN TTRAH.

on the 13th of November. The Waran is the summer homeof the AkaKhelAfridis. Contrary to expectation, the columnmet with noopposition. On the 15th the troops were fired upon and a few men were hit. But it was found that the aggressors were a partyof Zakka Khels, who had comeinto the valley in order to incite their kinsmen to resistance. The Aka Khel houses weretherefore left uninjured, as it was supposed they were anxious to submit,and only heldaloof through fear of the treatment theymight receive if they came back to their villages.

On the 16th General Lockhartordered Kempster to bring his brigade back to the Maidan Camp. Happily the pacific aspect of the valley did not induce the general to neglect any of the usual precautions for protecting his march.

A strong rearguard, under the command 0! Colonel Travers,wasformedof the 2ndGoorkhas, the 3rd Goorkha scouts, a company eachof the Dorsets and the Gordons, and five guns of a Britishmountainbattery. The march began at half-past nine in the morning. The tribesmen soonbegan to show in groups on the hills, it WHILE the army was camped at Maidan the Orakzais sent in envoys asking for terms of peace, and Sir Richard Udny and the political officers negotiated with them the terms on which their submission would be received. A heavy fine, surrender of arms, and giving up of hostages were the leading features of the capitulation. Some of the Afridi clans were also anxious to submit, but two of the most powerful among them, the Aka Khel and the Zakka Khel, were persistently hostile, and Sir William Lockhart declared that he would not enter into separate arrangements with any of the clans till these had submitted. The Afridi nation must surrender as a whole, and it was for the friendly clans to do their best to persuade their brethren to submit if they wanted peace. At the same time it was declared that active measures of hostility wouldonly be taken against those who were actually in arms against the Government.

Kempster's brigade was sent into the Waran Valley, a lateral branch of the Mastura Valley,