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1 Squadron 10th Bengal Cavalry, 
“ G” Company Madras Sappers, 
1st Company Bombay Sappers, 
Troops. 
2nd Regiment N. i. (Grenadiers), 
18th Regiment, N. I., 
Head-Qrs. and 5 Companies 21st Punjab N.I. 
“ Second Eeserve 33 ammunition of every corps and battery ordered now 
and hereafter to Antalo to be sent to that post. The remainder of the 
ammunition to be detained at Senate. 
2nd Eeserve. 
Snider ammunition, 250 rounds per rifle, | Musketry ammunition, 160 rounds per rifle, 
Carbine ammunition, 100 rounds per carbine. 
To avoid confusion, I may here record the names of the different halting 
grounds between Zulla and Antalo,— 
Zulla, 
Koomaylo, 
Sooro, 
Undul Wells, 
Eayray Guddy, 
Senate, 
Goonagoona, 
Focada, 
Addigerat, 
Mai Wahiz, 
Adabaga, 
Dongolo, 
Agoola, 
Dolu, 
Eikhullut, 
Antalo. 
Total distance is 192 miles. The road rising in the first five marches 
to an altitude of 7500 feet, and then passing over a succession of rugged 
hills several hundred feet high to Antalo 7200 ft. high. Fortunately, with 
the exception of the troops already detailed as garrisoning Addigerat, 
Senate, and the stations in the Pass, the minor posts could be held 
by small parties of cavalry, only sufficient to keep up a tolerably efficient 
postal service. 
By this time the powers of the Transport Corps were so far exhausted 
that the stream of supplies from our base of operations must have ceased, 
had not General Malcolm set on foot a system of native carriage between 
Addigerat and Antalo, which though unequal to our enormous requirements 
continued to work throughout the expedition. Thus then, with the ex¬ 
ception of a small commissariat supply, the duties of our Transport service 
were limited to the carriage of baggage, ammunition, and treasure, and 
starvation would have stared the army in the face, if at Antalo, the resources 
of the Valley of the Teckazee, to the westward, had not been opened out 
to us, firmly secured by the brightness of our dollars. 
At this very period 150 vessels were afloat in the harbour of Zulla, 
while stores, that many even then would have deemed luxuries, lay stacked 
upon the shore. 
The following detail of ships chartered thus early at the different ports 
undermentioned, proves the correctness of this statement:— 
Steamers. 
Sailing vessels. 
Total tonnage. 
Bombay .. 
.. 32 
159 
179,405 
Calcutta.. 
.. 15 
24 
37,876 
England, via the Cape. 
.. 12 
— 
27,157 
Suez .. 
.. 8 
— 
6733 
Aden. 
— 
1 
840 
69 native bugalows. 
