The loss on our side at Kelat was, in proportion, a great deal greater than at Ghuzni.  We had altogether about 1100 bayonets engaged, and the loss was 140, being about one in seven; of this loss, the Queen’s bear a proportion equal to that of the other two regiments together, having returned about seventy in the butcher’s bill out of 280, which was the number we brought into the field, being about one in four.  Out of thirteen officers, we had one killed, four severely, and one slightly, wounded; twenty-three men were killed, and forty-one wounded, of whom some have died since, and most will feel the effect of their wounds till their dying day, as the greatest portion are body wounds.

With regard to prize-money, I have no doubt that had things been even tolerably well managed, there would have been plenty of it, but we did not stay there long enough to search the place thoroughly.  I hear also that the other part of the force that went down by the Bolan Pass claim to share with us, which we do not allow; so that, perhaps, it may get into the lawyers’ hands, and then good-bye to it altogether, I do not expect, under any circumstances, more than 100l.  Some of the rooms of the citadel were very handsomely fitted up, particularly one in the old fellow’s harem, which was one entire mirror, both sides and ceiling.

We remained at Kelat till the 21st of November, and then marched by the Gundava Pass on this place.  During the week that we remained there, my wounds continued doing very well, and I had very little fever; and on the third and fourth days after I was hit, the doctor considered me “all right.”  On the two first days of our march, however, I caught a low fever, which left me on the third, and I have continued to grow gradually better ever since.  We found the Gundava a much longer and more difficult pass than that of the Bolan, and could get very little grain or supplies either for ourselves or our cattle.  Our march was perfectly unmolested, as by that time the new Khan had arrived at Kelat, and most of the principal chiefs had acknowledged him.  I do not know, however, what has become of Mehrab Khan’s eldest son, a lad of fifteen years old, who was bringing up a reinforcement to his father in our rear, while we were marching on Kelat, but did not arrive in the neighbourhood until after the place was taken.  He, however, threatened us with a night attack while we were lying in front of it, so that we were on the alert, every one sleeping on his arms during the whole time we were there.

  “We laid not by our harness bright,
   Neither by day nor yet by night.”

During the whole of this time the weather set in dreadfully cold, colder than I ever experienced it anywhere in my life; sharp frosts, &c.