104 The progress of the Kashmir Series. [No. 2, 
of the countries near Gilgit, and a short account of the expedition 
itself may he interesting. 
The enclosed rough plan is the general result as to the geography 
of the country annexed, and also shows a portion of the neighbour- 
ing countries. 
The Maharajah laid in a large supply of food at the forts of Astor 
and Boonjee during the summer of 1859. Hitherto one of the 
greatest obstacles to making a successful attack on Gilgit has been 
the difficulty of getting supplies. The natives are in the habit of 
using the old expression to the effect, that a small force going against 
Gilgit was sure to be defeated and a large force to he starved. To 
obviate this a hundred ponies were put at each of the 17 halting 
places between Kashmir and Boonjee, via Gurais and Astor, and 
whilst the weather permitted a hundred loads of grain were delivered 
daily at Boonjee. 
In June and July of this year several detachments of sepoys were 
moved upon Gilgit mustering finally at Boonjee to about 4000 men 
under Colonel Devi Singh and Colonel Dooloo Singh. The whole 
body then advanced upon Gilgit crossing the Indus by means of a 
boat, further on the army crossed a tributary river by a rope-bridge 
of their own making, and another tributary by a wooden bridge. 
No opposition was met before reaching Gilgit itself, and there the 
Gilgities got inside their fort and held out for a short time, during 
which there was a little firing on both sides ending by the Gilgities 
surrendering, the Maharajah’s force losing one man by the burst- 
ing of a gun and the Gilgities leaving one dead man in the fort sup- 
posed to have died a natural death during the siege. 
Having settled affairs at Gilgit, the force advanced further up the 
valley to Shirni (Shirwat) fort, where there was some slight resist- 
ance ending as before in capitulation. The force then advanced on 
Yassin which is on the Gilgit river, and not on a separate tributary 
of the Indus. Yassin fell into the hands of the force and the son of 
Goraman who held Gilgit in addition to Yassin made his escape 
over.the mountains to the west and on into Badakshan. Goraman him- 
self died during 1857. He was well known in the whole of the 
country between the Indus and Cabul and was generally called an 
Adamkhor, or man-eater, from a habit that he had of catching all 
