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Excluding the carriage of troops and animals, and the tonnage occupied 
for hospital accommodation, &c. a liberal margin remains for stores and 
supplies, from which the army could derive but small benefit. 
Here then our Commander might have failed in the courage which was 
required to push forward an army 200 miles further into a difficult country, 
the resources of which it was impossible to estimate; or he might have been 
tempted to diminish the Eorce he considered necessary to operate against 
a formidable stronghold in the hands of a desperate enemy, and to maintain 
a line of communication equal in length with that by which he was already 
separated from his base. 
The Pioneer Brigade had not made three marches from Antalo, when an 
easier road to Atala than that they had selected was discovered; along this 
the Division advanced, moving thence forward as it were without a Pioneer 
Brigade, in single file along difficult mountain tracks, rising several 
u it‘n r ds ^ mes an altitude of more than 10,000 feet above the 
\3o, r<nm * sea level. Of the three columns, the rear comprised the guns 
M-gee 0 f Q- / 14 th R.A. carried on elephants, two 8-inch mortars, 
Atala, 6 ’ l^th Regt. of Cavalry, and “ K” company of Madras Sappers, 
Mukhan, wherever they were joined with other troops, the slow and 
Ashangx. difficult march of the elephants served to impede the column. 
On this side of Atala the army passed the Amba of Waldoo Yasus, an 
independent chief, claiming protection from Theodore against Kassa. He 
afterwards proved troublesome in disturbing our arrangements for native 
carriage and in indulging in petty squabbles with a brother-in-law of 
Prince Kassa, but being submissive on our return was left uninjured. 
The mountain lake of Ashangi, at an altitude of 8200 feet, is 17 fathoms 
in depth, its extent being five miles by four. It lies on the border of the 
territory of "Wofela; here the Mahomedan population of the Gallas is 
mixed up with a Christian element, and constant disturbances take place 
from the near neighbourhood of two antagonistic races. 
G. O. C.C. 
Adjutant - General’s Office. 
Head Quaetees, Camp Dildee, 
25th March, 1868. 
The following distribution of troops in the 1st, or Sir C. Staveley’s 
division, is ordered:— 
Troops, 1st Brigade. 
Hd.-Qrs. 3rd Scinde Horse, to be completed 
by the detachment, en route to ioin, 
“A” 21st, Steel Battery, 
1st Battalion, 4th K. O., 
Hd.-Qrs. and 6 Companies 23rd P. Pioneers, 
Hd.-Qrs. Wing 27th N.I. 
Hd.-Qrs. 3rd Light Cavalry, 
“B” 21st, Steel battery, 
Four guns, “ G ” 14th, E.A., 
No. 3 and 4 Companies, Bombay Sappers 
and Miners, 
Troops, 2nd Brigade. 
I Naval Eocket Brigade, 
I 33rd Duke of Wellington’s Eegiment. 
Troops, 3rd Brigade. 
Two Companies Punjaub Pioneers, 
Two 8-inch Mortars of 6/25th E.A., 
“ K ” Company Madras Sappers and Miners, 
