1 412 PASSAGE OF THE KHAIBAR EFFECTED.
2 proved an arduous task, and when night closed
3 in they -were still a mile from camp; it was
4 necessary therefore to halt the following day,
5 to allow of their being rejoined to the force.*
6 At Landi Khana are the remains of two forts,
7 and tradition assigns them as the residences of
8 two noble ranies or queens, who erected them
9 at the extremity of their respective dominions,
10 in order that they might enjoy each other’s
11 society; and, strange to say, the harmony
12 continued until death separated them. On
13 the 6th we left for Dhaka, passing midway
14 a ruined castle on the summit of an isolated
15 hill, in a more open part of the defile than
16 usual, which again becomes enclosed between
17 rocky and precipitous cliffs, before it termi-
18 nates in the small and confined valley of the
19 above name: two partially fortified villages
20 are at one end of the latter. Having now
21 got through the notorious Khaibar Pass, the
22 following order was issued by Colonel Wade:—
23 * Dost Mahomed Khan used to pay the Khaibaris
24 oue huncred rupees a gun for carrying his artillery by
25 manual force over this steep and rugged pass.