1 388 OUR MARCH.
2 men’s shoulders, for the purpose of being car-
3 ried up the steeps where necessary ; the am-
4 munition being conveyed in boxes slung over
5 the backs of a couple of mules. Captain Ferris
6 was, simultaneously, to keep moving with his
7 regiment along the tops of the hills, and
8 Mackeson to penetrate from Jamrud with his
9 Multanis and part of the Sikh contingent, by
10 a shorter and more confined pass, the Shadi
11 Bagiar, only adapted for foot passengers and
12 camels. At dawn of day our cortége was
13 ready, and, as we mustered at the extremity of
14 a lofty mountain, tinged by the grey of morn-
15 ing, with a rippling stream running at its base,
16 the scene was one of extreme beauty and ex-
17 citement, crowded as it was with & multitude
18 of troops, and the tribes of the various districts
19 in the neighbourhood who were friendly to our
20 cause, and whose infinity of costumes added
21 greatly to the picturesqueness of the display.
22 “ After a short interval, everything being re-
23 ported as ready, we commenced our march,
24 havifig first. sent forward a party of Lord’s
25 escort as an advanced guard, and who,