The message was verbal, and had to be translated by Abraham, but I did not get to hear the wording of it.

I was on guard.
"It is well," said Ranjoor Singh to me, when he went the rounds and found me perched on a crag like a temple minaret, "they are keeping faith.

The Wassmuss men are in the pass below us, and our friends deny them passage.

At dawn there will be a fight and our friends will probably give ground.

Two hours before dawn we will march, and come down behind the Wassmuss men.