'The views and opinions of Brigadier General John Jacob, CB. Aide-decamp to the Queen; Aide-de-camp to the Governor General of India, &c. &c. &c.; late commanding in chief the British forces in Persia; at present commanding the Sind Irregular Horse, and Political Superintendent of the North-West frontier of Sind.' [‎332] (362/481)

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his squadron between the mountaineers and their hills, fell
on them in such sort, that, although they outnumbered him
more than five to one, he nearly annihilated the Boogtee
tribe.
Since that day, the task of keeping the border has been
comparatively very easy. SoOn after that affair, I was
allowed to make my own arrangements for the permanent
guarding of this frontier. I then withdrew the posts from
Shahpoor and Meerpoor (that at Mobarukpoor I had long
before transferred to Dil Morad-ke-Ghuree), established a
chain of posts from Kumber to Kusmore, with lines at each
place ; sunk wells where required, and cut a road from
Ilassan-ke-Ghuree to Kusmore, through the dense jungle
of Boordeeka.
The duty of guarding this frontier has now become a
simple matter of routine : patrols always go daily from post
to post in both directions ; my Belooch scouts, who are
kept always moving about the desert, and who have
constant free communication with the country-folk, give
timely information of everything stirring, when a special
party is immediately sent to any point indicated.
Having gained the entire confidence of the peasantry of
the country, who now despise the mountaineers as much
as they formerly dreaded them, these people also are of
material assistance to us, and every strange footstep on the
border is certain to be speedily reported to one or other of
the posts, and to be immediately followed.
For the relief of the detachments at the frontier posts, the
plan I have adopted is this: two parties leave Khanghur on
the first of every month; one proceeds to Dil Morad-ke-
Ghuree, and the other to Rojaun; the parties at these two
posts, being relieved, proceed to relieve the detachments at
the next posts; and so on to the end of the chain—the last