1 ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. 547
2 ourselves at the end of our. journey after an
3 absence of exactly one year. On the same
4 date an order was published by the Governor-
5 General relating to the operations of the army
6 across the Indus, of which the following is a
7 paragraph :—
8 “His Lordship has also ‘els satisfaction
9 in adding that the best acknowledgments of
10 the Government are due to Lieuténant-Colonel
11 Wade, who was employed ‘on the Peshawr
12 frontier, and who, gallantly supported by the
13 | officers and men of all ranks under him, and
14 seconded by the cordial* aid of the Sikh. go-
15 vernment, an ‘aid the more honourable because
16 rendered at a painful crisis of its affairs, opened
17 the Khaibar Pass, and overthrew the authority
18 of the enemy in that quarter, at the moment
19 * Tnasmuch as Ranjeet Singh himself personally repre-
20 sented the Sikh government, the term is quite applicable,
21 but no further, as has been shown in the narrative of the
22 expedition; and to show how long their co-operation
23 lasted, their Mahomedan contingent, which would have
24 proved of the greatest aid to meet those sudden exigencies
25 which occurred, was never efficiently maintaine1.after the
26 Mission returned to Lodiana.