text:  These it is to be presumed will now be summarily taken under the _protection_ of the Anglo-Indian Government:--but more difficulty will probably be experienced with the fierce and imperfectly subdued tribes of Scindians and Belooches inhabiting the lower valley of the Indus;--and in order to protect the commerce of the river and maintain the undisputed command of its course it will be necessary to retain a sufficient extent of vantage-ground on the further bank and to keep up in the country an amount of force adequate to the effectual coercion of these predatory races