[Forty-one years in India by Frederick Sleigh Roberts]@TWC D-Link bookForty-one years in India CHAPTER LX 13/13
of strength.] [Footnote 12: -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | |Yabus, | |Indian | | | | | or |Mules.|ponies.|Donkeys.|Camels.
| | |Afghan | | | | | | |ponies.| | | | | -- ----------------------------------------------------------- |Number of animals | | | | | | | that left Kabul | 1,589 | 4,510| 1,244 | 912 | 6[1*]| |Purchased during | | | | | | | the march[2*] | 35 | 1| -- | 208 | 171 | |Number of animals | | | | | | | that reached | | | | | | | Kandahar | 1,179 | 4,293| 1,138 | 1,078 | 177 | |Casualties during | | | | | | | the march | 445 | 218| 106 | 42 | | -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Note 1*: With hospital equipment. Note 2*: Only twice had animals to be taken against the will of the owners, and on both occasions the matter was amicably settled in the end.] [Footnote 13: Major E.Hastings, Captain West Ridgeway, Major Euan Smith, C.S.I., and Major M.Prothero.] [Footnote 14: Major A.Badcock, Captain A.Rind, and Lieutenants C.Fitzgerald, H.Hawkes, and H.Lyons Montgomery, all of the Bengal Staff Corps.] [Footnote 15: Lieutenant-Colonel R.Low, Bengal Staff Corps; Captain W.Wynter, 33rd Foot; Captains G.H.Eliot and C.R.Macgregor, Bengal Staff Corps; Lieutenants L.Booth, 33rd Foot, H.Elverson, 2nd Foot, R.Fisher, 10th Hussars, R.Wilson, 10th Hussars, and C.Robertson, 8th Foot.] * * * * *.
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