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Through Three Campaigns

CHAPTER 11: An Arduous March
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In the morning he joined the advance party, and went ten miles down the pass.

On arriving there, he found that the Queen's and the 3rd Sikhs had pushed on farther to Dargai.

This was not the place previously visited of this name, which appears to be a common one in the Tirah.

Plenty of hay and straw stores were found, and the troops were vastly more comfortable than on the previous night.
It was here that Lisle had overtaken the column.
Next day the whole force was encamped at Dargai, where they were received in a friendly manner by the villagers; who expressed themselves willing to pay their share of the fines imposed, and also to picket the hills.

The rear guard, of two companies of Ghoorkhas and two companies of Scottish Fusiliers, arrived late in the day.


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