When they reached Buni they prepared a house for defence, and remained there for seven days until reinforcements came up.
In the meantime the 20th Bengal Sappers and Miners, and the 42nd Kashmir Infantry had gone on, beyond the point where Captain Ross's detachment had been all but annihilated, and reached Reshun; and Lieutenants Edwards and Fowler, with the Bengal Sappers and ten Kashmir Infantry, went on to repair a break in the road, a few miles beyond that place.

They took every precaution to guard against surprise.

Lieutenant Fowler was sent to scale the heights on the left bank, so as to be able to look down into some sangars on the opposite side.

With some difficulty, he found a way up the hillside.

When he was examining the opposite cliff a shot was fired, and about two hundred men rushed out from the village and entered the sangars.
As Fowler was well above them, he kept up a heavy fire, and did great execution.