Excerpt: ... MASTUJ While at Mastuj we heard from Jones the story of the disaster at Koragh-which I will give. Ross, with Jones and about ninety-three Sikhs, left Mastuj on the 7th March, with the intention of helping Edwardes and Fowler, who were believed to be in danger at Reshun, and marched to Buni; leaving a detachment there of thirty-three sepoys under a native officer, he marched with Jones and sixty men for Reshun, hoping to arrive there that day. After leaving Buni, the road runs for some distance along flat ground ...
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Excerpt: ... MASTUJ While at Mastuj we heard from Jones the story of the disaster at Koragh-which I will give. Ross, with Jones and about ninety-three Sikhs, left Mastuj on the 7th March, with the intention of helping Edwardes and Fowler, who were believed to be in danger at Reshun, and marched to Buni; leaving a detachment there of thirty-three sepoys under a native officer, he marched with Jones and sixty men for Reshun, hoping to arrive there that day. After leaving Buni, the road runs for some distance along flat ground until the junction of the Turikho and Yarkhun rivers is reached. At this point the road leads up along the face of a cliff and then down on to a small plain, where are a few houses and some patches of cultivation. This is known as the village of Koragh, and immediately after, the river runs between the cliffs, which draw together and make the mouth of the defile. The path which follows the left bank crosses the debris fallen from the cliffs above and then runs along the edge of the river at the foot of another and smaller cliff, or in summer, when the river is full, the path runs over this smaller cliff. Ross's party took the lower road. After the second cliff the paths lead on to a small plain about two hundred yards wide at its greatest width, and perhaps half a mile long, and then runs up and across the face of a third cliff which drops sheer down into the river. This cliff forms the end of the trap. It would be hard to find a better place for an ambuscade. Ross's advance guard was on this plain, approaching the spur which closes the trap, when they were fired on. Ross went forward to reconnoitre the ground, and at once saw the impossibility of driving the enemy out with his small force, and therefore ordered Jones to go back and hold the entrance of the defile to enable them to escape. On the first shot being fired, the coolies had chucked their loads and bolted, as likely as not helping to man the sangars enclosing the party. Jones, ...
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Add this copy of With Kelly to Chitral (Second Edition) to cart. $41.57, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1896 by Edward Arnold.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Red cloth binding with soiling all over and bumped corners. Front cover: gilt illustration. Backstrip: discoloured, gilt lettering, library markings, chipping at both ends, large tear along front edge, small part of top missing. Top page edge darkened. Internal: black end papers, bookplate inside front cover, residue on rear end papers, frontispiece and tissue guard, coloured map, plates, light pencil markings, firm binding, pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN:
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Very Good. Second edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 160, 32 pages. Illustrated. Fold-out map. No dust jacket. Heavy soiling to cloth, spine darkened. Contents clean and tight.
