The Friend of India and Statesman Friday January 3rd 1879

This is clearly shown IT the allotment of five bonneee yearly to the civilians and two to the military the former (as has been pointed out by the Secretary) numberintg about 27 to I of the latteii ; whilst the subscription rate !ter civilians anihmilitary are exactly the same. [...] upon the banks of the river it was arranged that our march ehonW begin at night fall It wan a wonderfully picturesque scene our progress across the barren sands of the desert under the hell-lighted shadows of the night with the sound of drums and trumpets breaking arse the deathly Millen. [...] As the Ambemadoes elephant peed before the front a Islam of Be gone was fired and then the soldiers streak up the strange and not unpleasant though melancholy strains of the Afghan national march speedily drowned by the shouts of the populace calling down upon us the blessing of the four Caliphs. [...] The first object that strikes the Don visitor is the large establishment of the saw-mills and the visitor from the Forth is awed by the almed nature of this place with its array of tall chimneys its tramway the crash of its machinery and the buoy hum of its workmen. [...] It sondoted of 150.cavels and 50 infantry..toregotal of sdripsr6200 mu and somiAers the damription of the country smisi habitrffi the Tribeifd be posed through the Bulbs wee not In mew of requiremeete." In the UMW= addressed to the Amir by Lord Lytton mare theiffilowing v— q In these eiremestenses the British Government remembering Its former friendship with the father of your Mohnen and