290 CHANGE OF PLANS. 



This plan was perforce abandoned, in 

 consequence of the death at Umballa, of 

 Sir Dudley Hill, which gave me a brigade 

 command, and it was only through a variety 

 of circumstances, chiefly accidental, that Sir 

 Colin Campbell was left in command at 

 Peshawur, and I was, after all, enabled to 

 start for the hills. It was now, however, 

 too late to carry out the original plan, and 

 I therefore wrote to Wilson, informing him 

 that I should come to Mussoorie, and start 

 from thence, taking the route through 

 Borasso, Koonawur, Peene, and Ladac, 

 visiting Cashmere last. Colls, one of my 

 brother ofiicers, was my companion, and a 

 place was kept for Sir Edward Campbell, 

 who was to have joined us in the hills, but 

 being detained at Simla, he was unable 

 to do so. 



We travelled dak as usual to Mussoorie, 

 passed a few days at the Rajpoor Hotel, 

 awaiting the arrival of our baggage, and 

 then being joined by Wilson and the men, 

 took the road to Phaidee, which we reached 



