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2 their chief supply of water; and the quantity
3 required for our camp must have sadly dimi-
4 nished their store. Many other villages, in-
5 variably protected by a lofty tower, were to be
6 seen from our position, and when within a mile
7 of Lala-beg-gharri, we passed a Grecian tomb,
8 or tope, erected on the summit of a high cliff,
9 and similar in appearance to, though somewhat
10 smaller than, that of Manikialas A rude
11 Khaibari tower surmounts it, and, from its
12 elevated site, forms a most excellent watch-
13 tower, which no doubt is constantly used. On
14 the 4th we marched to Landi Khana, the road
15 for some distance being very good; but after
16 crossing the crest of the pass, terminating in a
17 very precipitous and abrupt descent, cut for
18 three miles on the side of a hill. The track
19 here was villanously bad, and in some places.
20 nothing but the bare surface of a rock, down
21 the centre of which a deep groove had been
22 worn by the continued action of water, as age
23 after age the superabundance of heavy showers
24 had been carried off by this only channel of
25 exit. To lower the guns down this rocky steep
26 T 2