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2 but the authorities thought it unlikely
3 that troops would move before the cold
4 weather.
5 Bad as the news was to a sportsman,”
6 active service, or the chance of service, was
7 ample consolation to a soldier, and anxious
8 to reach the Regiment, we started at day-
9 break from the Glacier. At Gangoutrie we
10 made a halt for breakfast, intending to
11 proceed, but it snowed so hard, and |the
12 men were all so dead beat that we were
13 forced to halt for the day. The freshest man
14 was selected and sent off to Missourie to lay
15 our dak to Ferozepore, and in six days we
16 ourselves reached Missourie, and started the
17 same evening. The plains were almost red
18 hot, but fresh from the snow though we
19 were, the sun did not harm us; and in four
20 days we arrived at’ Ferozepore.
21 The weather had been frightfully hot, and
22 my poor Regiment had suffered much upon
23 their march from Umballa. An officer and
24 eight men had died on the line of march in
25 one night, and had not the wind providen-