The first division remained under my own immediate command, and Major-General R.O.Bright, C.B.,[5] was appointed to the command of the other.

I was, of course very much pleased at this proof of the confidence reposed in me.
[Footnote 1: Yahia Khan was Yakub Khan's father-in-law.] [Footnote 2: At an interview which Major Hastings, the Political Officer, and Mr.Durand, my Political Secretary, had with His Highness at my request on the 23rd October, he said, referring to the subject of the Amirship: 'I call God and the Koran to witness, and everything a Mussulman holds sacred, that my only desire is to be set free, and end my days in liberty.

I have conceived an utter aversion for these people.

I always treated them well, and you see how they have rewarded me.

So long as I was fighting in one place or another, they liked me well enough.