The gazetteer states that it never rains in Gilgit, but it rained when the detachment started, and continued to pour for two days.

The men had marched without tents.

Colonel Kelly, the doctor, Leward, and a staff officer followed in the afternoon, and overtook the main body that evening.
The troops had made up little tents with their waterproof sheets.
Colonel Kelly had a small tent, and the other officers turned in to a cow shed.

The force was so small that the Pioneers asked the others to mess with them, each man providing himself with his own knife, fork, and spoon, and the pots being all collected for the cooking.
The next march was long and, in some places, severe.

They were well received by the natives, whose chiefs always came out to greet them and, on the third day, reached Gupis, where a fort had been built by the Kashmir troops.