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2 grave was marked by a piece of stqne between
3 three and four feet high erected at the head of
4 it. These stones, placed close to each other,
5 presented a curious sight, and verified the
6 saying that every nation has its own manners
7 and customs, as such graves are not found in
8 India, and those we had seen on crossing the
9 of escape. It is very strongly situated on the top of a
10 solitary mountain, rising direct from the mountain-stream
11 below, which here runs through a passage of certainly not
12 more than twelve feet wide. Though the place is in fact
13 commanded by the heights around, so cragged and steep
14 are they, that no hope of a gun being taken up them could
15 be held out.
16 ‘‘ Marched to Jamrud. Instead of keeping down the
17 banks of the stream, as we ought to have done, we must
18 needs go a short cut, and anything like the road or moun-
19 tain footpath (for it was nothing else) I never saw. It
20 was, for some three miles, at first up and down the rocky
21 mountains, and then along a pathway on the side of one
22 about three feet wide, which at length led down to a dry
23 Vala, leading out into the plain of Peshawr, near the new
24 fort of Jamrud ; so that we have at last got into the plains,
25 and away from those cursed mountains.”—Fane’s Five
26 Years in India, pp. 211-215.
27 Captain Fane, who had entered Afghanistan with the
28 army of the Indus by the Bolan Pass, returned svith Sir
29 Claude*Wade’s mission from Kabul.
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