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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER XVI.
CHITRAL AND HUNZA.
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser."
Henry IV.
The expedition recorded in the previous chapter was my last
real journey, but for two years and more afterwards I was
employed in the interesting and important states of Chitral
and Hunza, and some account of these countries may be
given as a fitting conclusion to the narrative of my travels on
the northern frontier of India.
We may begin with Hunza, as we already have some
acquaintance with that country. When I travelled through
Hunza in 1889, the country, it will be remembered, was ruled
by a certain Safder Ali. The Government of India found
themselves compelled, in the winter of 1891–2, to make war
upon this chief, and as the result of a brilliant and successful
campaign, directed by Colonel A. G. Durand—a campaign
remarkable for the gallantry displayed by individual British
officers, and for the military efficiency of the newly trained
Kashmir troops—Safder Ali was forced to flee from the country,
and Hunza was brought more directly under the control of the
Maharaja of Kashmir and the Government of India. This
country of marauders was henceforth to be duly, though not
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