text:  "Whatever hopes may have been entertained up to this period of a speedy termination to the insurrection they began now to wax fainter every hour and an order was dispatched to the officer commanding at Candahar to lose no time in sending to our assistance the 16th and 43d regiments native infantry (which were under orders for India ) together with a troop of horse-artillery and half a regiment of cavalry; an order was likewise sent off to recall General Sale with his brigade from Gundamuk