The forward policy and it's results or thirty-five years' work amongst the tribes on our north-weste

Excerpt from The Forward Policy and Its Results, or Thirty-Five Years' Work Amongst the Tribes on Our North-Western Frontier of India Transfer of charge of political affairs connected with Khelat and Sind Frontiers from Sir William Merewether, Commissioner of Sind, to Colonel Munro, Commissioner of the Derajat - Sandeman's second Khelat mission - I am appointed on special duty under Sandeman Received telegram ordering me to join him at J acobabad - Employed on work connected with the mission, and in taking over from the Sind authorities the Khelat and other Frontier political records - Lord Lytton succeeds Lord Northbrook as Viceroy of India - Difficulties of Sandeman's task increased by change of Viceroys at critical juncture - His continued successes, culminating in the famous settlement at Mastang between the Khan of Khelat and Sirdars, gained for him Lord Lytton's warm acknowledgments and support - Sandeman obtains his majority - Colonel (afterwards Sir George) Pomeroy Colley, Military Secretary to Lord Lytton, visits Khelat to lay before Major Sandeman draft of a proposed new treaty between the British Government and the Khan and Sirdars of Khelat - Provisions of treaty agreed to by Khan and Sirdars - Lord Lytton visits J acobabad - The Khan of Khelat and Sirdars meet the Viceroy at J acobabad and the new treaty is formally executed - Khan accepts Viceroy's invita tion to Delhi Assemblage - Serious illness, which confined me to bed, prevented my being present on these important historic occasions Occupation of Quetta peacefully carried out with the consent of the Khan of Khelat and Beluchistan Sirdars, by a force of three hundred men of the 4th Sikhs under Captain Scott - Beluchistan Agency constituted - Appointed first