Our troubles with the hill tribes on the North-west border of India continue. General Blood's expedition to the Swat valley has crushed out one rising and yesterday came the welcome news that the Kohat pass had been evacuated by the tribesmen and that the relief column was rapidly advancing. It is not apprehended that there will be any difficulty in coping with these tribes but the difficulty is that even when punished there is no future Guarantee of their good behaviour. The Ameer has no more authority over them than we have; they are quite as a thorn in the flesh to him as to us. I notorious that he is anxious to pose as a King and not only as a Prince, and he is desirous to have a representative in London instead of at Calcutta. His interest is to restrain these turbulent tribesmen and to remain in every way friendly to the Indian government. The latest news seems to indicate that he has really had no hand, direct or indirect, in the rising and that with the known end he has in view all his interests point to friendship with England for which professes himself most anxious.
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