The Afridis could not bring themselves to rush the little party, but confined themselves to keeping up a heavy fire.

Another Sikh was wounded; and the dust caused by the bullets almost blinded the others, who could scarcely see to reply.

At last, just in the nick of time, a relieving party arrived and carried them off.
On the 8th General Westmacott started, with his brigade, to punish the Zakka-Khels for the continued night firing which, our commander had learned from prisoners, was kept up by that tribe.

The brigade did its work thoroughly and, by evening, the whole of the eastern valley was in flames.

That same evening, however, Captain Watson, a commissariat officer, was shot dead, as he stood at his own door.