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Cavagnari issued orders that the chief must pay a heavy fine, in money and cattle; and that the actual murderers must be tried for their crime. The Khan, however, took no notice of the demand. "Forty miles southeast of Sappri was the British cantonment of Murdan, where the corps of Guides is permanently quartered.
Naturally, the Swat villagers on the other side of the frontier considered that the operation was a deep-laid plot for injuring them; and it was at the village of Sappri that the chief went down, with a number of desperate men, and murdered all the coolies engaged in the work.
After covering thirty-two miles in seven hours, we halted at the frontier fort of Abazai, seven miles south of Sappri. "Beyond this point the country was impracticable for cavalry; and the force, now consisting of two hundred and twelve men, dismounted and marched forward on foot.
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