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Major Tanner also made a reconnaissance on the scale of 1 inch to 
the mile of the hills lying to the immediate south of Dakka. 
Capt. Samuells greatly distinguished himself at the taking of Ali 
Masjid by carrying on his survey under a heavy fire. Very shortly after- 
wards he was attacked with typhoid fever and died at Peshawar on the 
21st December, 1878. 
Between the 1st November and 5th February, Mr. Scott had nearly 
completed a plane-table survey of 320 square miles-lying between Lat. 33° 55’ 
and 84° 15’, Long. 71° and 71° 80’, comprising most of the country south 
of the Kabul river between Dakka and Fort Michni to the north, and 
in the neighbourhood of the Khyber and Bazar Valley to the south. 
He was then called on by Major Hastings, the Deputy Commissioner 
of Peshawar, to survey the portions of the Shinilo and Hyder Khan 
Kafilah routes to Dakka which he had not been able to complete before, 
and also to survey certain additional portions of the Kabul River. Whilst 
engaged on this work he and his party, which consisted of a few skalashis 
and a guard of 20 Sepoys and 2 non-commissioned officers of the 24th 
Panjab, N. I., were attacked by a strong party of Momunds and a hand-to- 
hand fight ensued. Mr. Scott displayed great gallantry, coolness and good 
judgment on the occasion, and probably saved the whole party from de- 
struction, as has been cordially acknowledged by the Panjab Government 
and by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General in Council. 
Capt. E. P. Leach, p. £., joined the Force in January and did good 
service for about two months in surveying the Bazar Valley and a good deal 
of the country round Jelalabad, chiefly in the Shinwari country on the 
northern slopes of the Safed Koh. He was attacked on the 17th March 
by some Shinwaris, while surveying near the villages of Maidanak and 
Girdi, and received a severe wound on the arm, which obliged him to return 
to Peshawar. 
Capt. Chas. Strahan, R. E., replaced Capt. Leach in April and was 
employed in surveying the country in the neighbourhood of Safed Sang 
and to the north of the road between that place and Jelalabad. 
On the occasion of the first expedition into the Bazdr Valley by the 
Column under General Maude on the 20th and 21st December, Mr. Scott 
accompanied the Force and surveyed along the route. During the second 
expedition of the 24th January and subsequent days he again accompanied 
General Maude’s Column wid Burg to China and completed a survey of the 
eastern part of the Bazar Valley and the scene of action towards Bara, 
while Capt. Leach, who accompanied General Tytler’s Force from Basdwal 
vid Chunar and Sisobi to China, returning from China to Dakka over the 
