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| 4 | 3 | | 4th Punjab | | | | | | | | Infantry | 24 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | ...

| +-------------+------------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+ | Total | 100 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 14 | +-------------+------------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+] [Footnote 7: Captain Younghushand was at Bozai-Gumbaz, and Lieutenant Davison on the Alichur Pamirs, both places being south of the Aksu branch of the Oxus, flowing from the Little Pamir Lake.] [Footnote 8: The Infantry comprised twenty-four battalions drawn up in line of quarter columns.

The Artillery consisted of one battery (six 7-pounders) carried on elephants, six batteries (six guns each, 5-pounders and 7-pounders) dragged by soldiers, and six batteries (six guns each, 3-pounders and 5-pounders) carried by Bhutia coolies.] [Footnote 9: I am not unmindful of the visit which Sir Mortimer Durand paid to Kabul after I had left India, but on that occasion, I believe, the question of the defence of Afghanistan was not discussed.] [Footnote 10: The works were stopped after I left India, but not, I was glad to think, before the redoubts had been finished, with the communications thereto.

The reasons given were that a change of plans was necessary for economy's sake, and that the construction of fortifications might induce the Natives to think we were doubtful of the continuance of our supremacy.