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2 met with no better success. Affairs remained
3 in this state till the evening, when the Colonel
4 directed two guns of the Maharaja’s horse
5 artillery and two companies of his infantry,
6 to relieve us, as we had been on duty the
7 whole day; and on their arrival about half-
8 .past eight or nine o'clock, I sent the howitzer
9 and British troops to camp; and then placing
10 the Sikh auxiliaries in a proper position to
11 guard against surprise, ‘1 returned to my tent,
12 which I reached at ten p.m. The firing had
13 ceased on both sides when darkness came on,
14 and all was now as still and quiet as it had
15 before been noisy and turbulent. Between
16 eleven and twelve the Colonel came back, to
17 whom I reported the arrangements that I had
18 made With. respect to the Sikhs, and who was
19 pleased to express his approbation of them.
20 “ Throughout the day, Captain Farmer and
21 Colonel Sheikh Bussowan, with their troops,
22 had been considerably exposed, the rugged
23 height held by the Afredis almost entirely com-
24 manding their position, and thus enabling them
25 to fire with tolerably accurate precision into our