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clearly traceable to the Kani, now happily deported, 

 and her friends, and has been carried out with a 

 fearful amount of the blackest treachery and base- 

 ness. There have been stirring events since I 

 wrote last. Twice within a fortnight has Herbert 

 Edwardes fought and defeated the Multan rebels in 

 pitched battles,^ and has succeeded, despite of treach- 

 erous foes and doubtful friends, in driving them 

 into the fort of Multan. His success has been only 

 less splendid than the energy and courage which 

 he has shown throughout, especially that high 

 moral courage which defies responsibility, risks, self- 

 interest, and all else, for the good of the State, 

 and which, if well directed, seems to command 

 fortune and ensure success." 



Hodson had then been summoned back to Lahore 

 to take over the command of the Guides from 

 Lumsden, who had been ordered down the river 

 towards Bahawalpur. He himself had made the 

 journey of a hundred miles from Dinanagar, " with 

 bag and baggage, in sixty hours, which, considering 

 that one can't travel at all by day and not more 

 than four miles by night, required a great amount 

 of exertion and perseverance. It is strange," he 

 adds, "that the natives always knock up sooner 

 than we do on a march like this. The cavalry were 

 nine days on the road and grumbled then ! I know 

 few things more fatiguing than, when exhausted by 

 the heat of the day, to have to mount at nightfall 

 and ride slowly throughout the night, and for the 

 two most disagreeable hours of a tropical day — viz., 

 those after sunrise." 



1 On June 18 at Kinairi, on the left bank of the Chinab, and on 

 July 1 at Sadusain, a few miles from Multiln. 



