Chapter LXXV: Appendix: IV

(Referred to in Chapter XLIX, Footnote 15.)

_Translation of a letter from_ MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS _to His Highness_ THE AMIR OF KABUL.

ALIKHEL, _18th September_, 1879.

(After the usual compliments.) Your Highness's letter of the 28th
Ramazan, with the enclosures from Herat and Turkestan, reached me
last night. I have acquainted myself with the contents. I am glad
to find your Highness is in good health, but sorry to hear of
the unfortunate disturbances in your Highness's dominions. Your
Highness's letter, in original, has been sent with enclosures to
His Excellency the Viceroy. I have already informed your Highness
of the wishes of His Excellency the Viceroy, and the reasons for
the movements of the British troops, and I have requested your
Highness to send a confidential representative to my camp. I
am awaiting a reply to that letter, and the arrival of your
Highness's confidential representative.

In the meantime I have sent a Proclamation to the tribes, and
letters to some of the Logar _maliks_, your Highness's subjects,
to assure those not concerned in the hateful massacre, and asking
them for assistance in carriage and supplies on payment. As it
appears to me proper I should inform your Highness of what I have
done, I enclose copies of the Proclamation to the tribes and of my
letter to the Logar _maliks_, and hope that your Highness may also
issue necessary orders for the furtherance of our plans. Rest
assured of the support of the Government of India.

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