[Footnote 11:  Colonel Reynell Taylor, whilst bearing like testimony to the good conduct of the Pathan soldiery, said the personal influence of officers will always be found to be the only stand-by for the Government interests when the religious cry is raised, and the fidelity of our troops is being tampered with.  Pay, pensions, and orders of merit may, and would, be cast to the winds when the honour of the faith was in the scale; but to snap the associations of years, and to turn in his hour of need against the man whom he has proved to be just and worthy, whom he has noted in the hour of danger, and praised as a hero to his family, is just what a Pathan will not do—­to his honour be it said.  The fact was that the officers in camp had been so long and kindly associated with their soldiers that the latter were willing to set them before their great religious teacher, the Akhund of Swat (’Records of Expeditions against the North-West Frontier Tribes’).]

[Footnote 12:  The late General Sir Charles Keyes, G.C.B.]

[Footnote 13:  The late Major-General T. E. Hughes, C.B., Royal Artillery.]

[Footnote 14:  The late General Sir John Garvock, G.C.B.]

[Footnote 15:  Now Bishop of Auckland and Primate of New Zealand.]

[Footnote 16:  The late Brigadier-General Sir W. W. Turner, K.C.B.]

[Footnote 17:  General Sir T. L. Vaughan, K.C.B.]

[Footnote 18:  Stone breastworks.]

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CHAPTER XXXVI. 1864-1868

A voyage round the Cape—­Cholera camps—­The Abyssinian expedition —­Landed at Zula

Early in the New Year (1864) Sir Hugh Rose, with the Head-Quarters camp, marched into Peshawar, where we remained until the middle of February.  The time was chiefly spent in inspections, parades, and field-days, varied by an occasional run with the hounds.  The hunting about Peshawar was very fair, and we all, the Chief included, got a great deal of fun out of our small pack.

On the 25th January a full-dress parade was held to announce to the garrison that Sir John Lawrence had been appointed Viceroy of India, and soon afterwards we left Peshawar and began our return march to Simla.

We changed our house this year and took one close to the Stewarts, an arrangement for which I was very thankful later, when my wife had a great sorrow in the death of her sister, Mrs. Sladen, at Peshawar.  It was everything for her at such a time to have a kind and sympathizing friend close at hand, when I was engaged with my work and could be very little with her during the day.  At this time, as at all others, Sir Hugh Rose was a most considerate friend to us; he placed his house at Mashobra at my wife’s disposal, thus providing her with a quiet resort which she frequently made use of and which she learned to love so much that, when I returned to Simla as Commander-in-Chief, her first thought was to secure this lovely ‘Retreat’ as a refuge from the (sometimes) slightly trying gaiety of Simla.