The villages in the Sisobi Glen are inhabited by Mullagoris, a comparatively insignificant tribe of doubtful origin, and therefore rather despised by their neighbours. They number about 900 fighting men, and the bulk of the tribe live north of the Kabul river and to the west of the Peshawar border, owning the Tartara mountain, 7000 feet high, valuable as a sanatorium and as a position of considerable strategic importance. For further information about the Mullagoris see Chapter IX. Footnote 115: Now the 6th Jat Light Infantry. Footnote 116: For details of this march, see the narrative of Surgeon-General Ker-Innes. Footnote 117: King of Islam. Footnote 118: The requirements of expeditionary carriage always weigh with especial hardship on the Punjab; during the summer of 1897 the Deputy Commissioners in that Province impressed about 100,000 animals and 25,000 owners, and of these numbers not one in five was actually required and sent to the front. Footnote 119: For much of the following I am indebted to Captain A. K. Slessor’s _Tirah Campaign_—being No. 5 of the “Derbyshire Campaign Series,” printed for regimental circulation. Footnote 120: Quotation is here again made from Captain Slessor’s book. Footnote 121: This was afterwards found to be a mere goat-track, quite unsuited to the movement of any large force—still less for its transport. “Talai” is sometimes called “Tsalai.” Footnote 122: Now the 128th Pioneers. Footnote 123: Now the 39th King George’s Own Central India Horse. Footnote 124: Now the 127th L.I. Footnote 125: Now the 95th Russell’s Infantry. Footnote 126: See Map VII. Footnote 127: Not to be confused with a tribe of the same name in the Yusafzai country. Footnote 128: See Map VII. Footnote 129: No longer in existence. Footnote 130: Disbanded in 1882. Footnote 131: 4 mountain guns, 300 rifles Royal Irish Regiment, 500 1st Battalion 2nd Gurkhas, 500 1st Battalion 3rd Gurkhas, 500 2nd Punjab Infantry, half a company Bombay Sappers and Miners, and departmental details. Footnote 132: See Map VII. Footnote 133: Above Sadda is Upper Kurram, between Sadda and Thal is Lower Kurram. Footnote 134: See Map VIII. Footnote 135: The Tochi Valley is sixty-three miles in length. Footnote 136: See Map VIII. Footnote 137: