for "Beauties sweet Scarres" the MS. gives "Starres"; on p. 19 for "Nisa" ("not Bacchus drawn from Nisa") we find "Nilus"; and in the line "Nor us, though Romane, Lais will refuse" (p. 81) the MS.

for "Beauties sweet Scarres" the MS. gives "Starres"; on p. 19 for "Nisa" ("not Bacchus drawn from Nisa") we find "Nilus"; and in the line "Nor us, though Romane, Lais will refuse" (p. 81) the MS.

Your son, W.B. CONTENTS CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II - THE MARCH BEGINS CHAPTER III - THE SHANDUR PASS CHAPTER IV - FROM LASPUR TO GASHT CHAPTER V - CHOKALWAT CHAPTER VI - THE RECONNAISSANCE FROM MASTUJ CHAPTER VII - THE FIGHT AT NISA GOL CHAPTER VIII -

*A "PARI" ON THE ROAD TO GUPIS *THE SHANDUR PASS *RECONNAISSANCE SKETCH OF THE POSITION AT CHOKALWAT *MASTUJ FORT LOOKING UP THE NISA GOL NULLAH *RECONNAISSANCE SKETCH OF THE POSITION AT NISA GOL MAP SHOWING ROUTE OF COLONEL KELLY'S FORCES *

*A "PARI" ON THE ROAD TO GUPIS *THE SHANDUR PASS *RECONNAISSANCE SKETCH OF THE POSITION AT CHOKALWAT *MASTUJ FORT LOOKING UP THE NISA GOL NULLAH *RECONNAISSANCE SKETCH OF THE POSITION AT NISA GOL MAP SHOWING ROUTE OF COLONEL KELLY'S FORCES *

*** Thanks are due to the Publishers of Mr. Thomson's The Chitral Campaign for the loan of two blocks illustrating "Chokalwat" and "Nisa Gol" from Lieut.

These Levies were splendid men, hardy, thick-set mountaineers, incapable of fatigue; and, as a distinguishing badge, each man was provided with a strip of red cloth which they wore in their caps, but which, we afterwards found by practical experience at Nisa Gol, was inadequate.

On the 13th, hearing that the enemy were occupying the Nisa Gol, a position some six miles from Mastuj, he reconnoitred up to it, and found some sangars, which he destroyed, but no enemy.

The Hunza and fifty Punyal Levies were sent to reconnoitre towards Nisa Gol that day, and fifty more Punyals up the Yarkhun valley to forage.

From here I could see pretty well the whole of the position occupied by the enemy, except the end of the Nisa Gol nullah where it debouches on to the river.

I now noticed rather a commotion among the garrison of the sangars across the Nisa Gol nullah; the men began turning out, and one or two ran towards the higher sangars, evidently passing on some news.

I also suggested that some light scaling ladders should be made, as I expected we should find them very useful in crossing the Nisa Gol.

CHAPTER VII THE FIGHT AT NISA GOL Next morning, 13th April, we were all having a good square breakfast by 6 A.M., and punctually at seven o'clock the column moved off, headed by the Levies.

[Illustration: Looking up the Nisa Gol Nullah.]

[Illustration: Reconnaissance Sketch of the position at Nisa Gol.]

Our march for this day led for some miles along a flat, grassy plain, a continuation of the Nisa Gol Maidan, then up and over a fairly high spur, and gradually down to the river bed opposite the village of Awi or Avi.

They confessed that they had fought us at Nisa Gol, and stated they were now going home.

That was a particularly bad day for halts: the first one was caused by the column having to cross the Perpish Gol, a very similar place to the Nisa Gol, but undefended.

Oftentimes they may and will not, 'tis their own foolish proceedings that mars all, they are too distrustful of themselves, too soon dejected: say she be rich, thou poor: she young, thou old; she lovely and fair, thou most ill-favoured and deformed; she noble, thou base: she spruce and fine, but thou an ugly clown: nil desperandum, there's hope enough yet: Mopso Nisa datur, quid non speremus amantes?

Whether the young man was as happy, we may not venture to say; but this we might surmise, even at this stage of our story, and in reference to the classical proverb, that the bastard might be the beautiful Nisa, and the lawful heir the ill-favoured Mopsus.

After a while they yield: Nisa.

, evidently forms the basis of that poet's own epigram 'Of Nisa' (ed.