While the Guides escort remained outside the palace, Cavagnari and his immediate entourage found the warmest of welcomes. In Jack"s opinion, the Amir was shifty but outwardly friendly. He greeted Cavagnari with respect and dignity, asked kindly about the health of Queen Victoria and showed every indication of friendship. After all the splendour of the entrance to Kabul, the initial meeting with the Amir was short, and courtiers soon ushered the British to the Residency.
“Our new home in Kabul,” Cavagnari said complacently.
Located about two hundred and fifty yards from the Amir"s palace within the Bala Hissar, the British Residency was a compound consisting of several houses. Jack viewed the compound, noting the surrounding buildings that dominated it and the lack of walls on the flat ro
