The Hazara column consisted of a wing of the 51st Foot, 300 Native Cavalry, a regiment of Native Infantry and eight guns, holding Darband, Torbela, and Topi on the Indus.] [Footnote 4: The highest point of a pass crossing a mountain range.] [Footnote 5: Now General Sir Charles Brownlow, G.C.B.] [Footnote 6: The late Sir Henry Marion Durand, K.C.S.I., C.B., afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab.] [Footnote 7: 7th Royal Fusiliers, 23rd Pioneers, and 24th Punjab Native Infantry.] [Footnote 8: Reynell Taylor remained with the force as political officer.] [Footnote 9: General Sir John Adye, G.C.B.] [Footnote 10: The expedition was an admirable school for training men in outpost duty.

The Pathans and Gurkhas were quite at home at such work, and not only able to take care of themselves, but when stalked by the enemy were equal to a counter-stalk, often most successful.

The enemy used to joke with Brownlow's and Keyes's men on these occasions, and say, 'We don't want you.

Where are the _lal pagriwalas ?_ [as the 14th Sikhs were called from their _lal pagris_ (red turbans)] or the _goralog_ [the Europeans]?
They are better _shikar_ [sport]!' The tribesmen soon discovered that the Sikhs and Europeans, though full of fight, were very helpless on the hill-side, and could not keep their heads under cover.] [Footnote 11: Colonel Reynell Taylor, whilst bearing like testimony to the good conduct of the Pathan soldiery, said the personal influence of officers will always be found to be the only stand-by for the Government interests when the religious cry is raised, and the fidelity of our troops is being tampered with.

Pay, pensions, and orders of merit may, and would, be cast to the winds when the honour of the faith was in the scale; but to snap the associations of years, and to turn in his hour of need against the man whom he has proved to be just and worthy, whom he has noted in the hour of danger, and praised as a hero to his family, is just what a Pathan will not do--to his honour be it said.