camels 400,
donkeys 400.

Meat 4,000 lbs.
Bread-stuff 40 maunds.[*]
Vegetables 4,000 lbs.
Rice 800 "
Salt 133 "
Sugar 600 "
Tea 150 "
Rum, 25 per cent. 80 gallons.
Atta 320 maunds.
Dall 51-1/2 "
Ghee 19-1/4 "
Salt 8-1/2 "
Grain 700 "

A. R. BADCOCK, Major,
Deputy Commissary-General.

KELAT-I-GHILZAI,
_24th August,_ 1880.

[Note *: A maund is equivalent to 80 lbs.]
]

[Footnote 4: The effective garrison consisted of 1,000 British
soldiers, 3,000 Native soldiers, and fifteen Field guns.]

[Footnote 5: One and all bore testimony to the unfailing good
behaviour and creditable bearing of the Royal Artillery and the Bombay
Sappers and Miners, not only during the investment, but in the very
trying time of the retreat from Maiwand.]

[Footnote 6: The walls had an average height of 30 feet, and breadth
of 15 feet on the north and east fronts.]

[Footnote 7: Two Royal Artillery guns, 3rd Bengal Cavalry, and 15th
Sikhs. Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman accompanied the party, and was of
great assistance to Brigadier-General Gough.]

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CHAPTER LXII.
1880

Commencement of the fight--72nd Highlanders and 2nd Sikhs
--92nd Highlanders and 2nd Gurkhas--Ayub Khan's camp
--Difficulties about supplies--Parting with the troops
--A pleasing memory

The next morning, the 1st September, in accordance with instructions
from Simla, I assumed command of the army in southern Afghanistan.
There was no return to show the strength or composition of General
Phayre's column, but the troops at Kandahar all told now amounted in
round numbers to 3,800 British and 11,000 Native soldiers, with 36
guns.

An hour before daybreak the whole of the troops were under arms, and
at 6 a.m. I explained to Generals Primrose and Ross and the officers
commanding brigades the plan of operations. Briefly, it was to
threaten the enemy's left (the Baba Wali Kotal), and to attack in
force by the village of Pir Paimal.

The Infantry belonging to the Kabul column, upon whom devolved the
duty of carrying the enemy's position, were for