Some of the men began to develop fevers, and if Ranjoor Singh had not fiercely threatened the doctor, things might have gone from bad to worse.

As it was, three men died of something the matter with their lungs, and five men died of wounds.

Yet, on the other hand, we did not desire too much time, because (surest of all certainties) the Turks were going to send regiments in a hurry to wreak vengeance.

Before noon, somebody rallied the remnants of the convoy we had beaten and brought them back to bury dead and look for property, and they looked quite a formidable body as I watched them from between the boulders.

They soon went away again, having found nothing but tents torn to rags; but I counted more than four hundred, which rather lessened my conceit.