Note * — Chapter XX · IN THE KHYBER PASS.

At Gundamuck "the enemy rushed in with drawn knives, and with the exception of two officers and four men, the whole of this doomed band fell victims to the sanguinary mob."—Memorials of Afghanistan, Calcutta, 1843.

Long prior to this event, Colonel Dennie, of the 13th, made a curiously prophetic speech. "His words were, 'you'll see that not a soul will escape from Cabul except one man, and he will come to tell us that the rest are destroyed."—Sale's Brigade.

Ackbar Khan is said to have uttered a similar prediction.