All the wounded are doing well.

No signs or tidings of Phayre." General Gough, with two regiments of Cavalry, is at Robat; they are in heliographic communication with Kandahar.

General Primrose heliographs that Ayub Khan has entrenched his camp at Baba Wali.

The force marches for Robat to-morrow, seventeen miles distant from Kandahar.' The following day the column joined the two Cavalry regiments at Robat, where I was met by Lieutenant-Colonel St.John, from whom I heard that Ayub Khan was likely to make a stand.

I thought it prudent, therefore, to halt on Sunday, the 29th, and divide the last twenty miles into two short marches, in order that the men and animals might arrive as fresh as possible, and fit for any work which might be required of them; for should Ayub Khan retire towards Herat, he would have to be followed up, and his army attacked and defeated wherever we might overtake him.
Before leaving Robat, a letter arrived from General Phayre, which put an end to all hope of his force being able to co-operate with mine, for his leading brigade, he wrote, had only just got to the Kohjak Pass.