The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . , over the Darkot and Baroghil of these passes is difficult for travellers,and a fair amount of traffic passes over them fromSamarkand and Bokhara. I asked one of the nativeshow far it was from Gupis to Bokhara, and he saidit could be done in thirty-seven easy marches. Ishould mention that if the valley of the Yarkun orKashkar river, which is also known lower down inits course as the Chitral or Kunar river, be followedup beyond Mastuj, it, too, will be found to termi-nate in the Darkot Pass, immediately
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . , over the Darkot and Baroghil of these passes is difficult for travellers,and a fair amount of traffic passes over them fromSamarkand and Bokhara. I asked one of the nativeshow far it was from Gupis to Bokhara, and he saidit could be done in thirty-seven easy marches. Ishould mention that if the valley of the Yarkun orKashkar river, which is also known lower down inits course as the Chitral or Kunar river, be followedup beyond Mastuj, it, too, will be found to termi-nate in the Darkot Pass, immediately behind whichis the Baroghil. When the advance party reached Ghizar, wherethey found Captain de Vismes, the Gilgit settlementofficer in charge, it had been snowing hard forfive days. It was impossible to get on, so theywaited for the rearguard to come up, which it didon the following day. It had been joined at Gupisby Lieutenant Stewart, , who took charge ofthe guns, by Lieutenant Oldham, , with fortyKashmir Sappers, and by Lieutenant Gough withloo Kashmir TERU 125 On April I St, in spite of the snow, the wholecolumn started for the Shandur Pass. When theyhad gone about three miles, it was found that anumber of the Yasin villagers, who had been im-pressed to carry the baggage, had run away duringthe night. Stewart galloped off to try and find them,and coming up with about thirty compelled them toreturn with him to the force, which however they didnot reach until late in the afternoon. He had avery long, tiring ride, and his pony dropped in thesnow with exhaustion, and had to be abandoned. When the column had Q-one about four miles thebattery mules stuck hopelessly in the snow. Afterdoing all they could to get them along, it was foundthat in two hours they had only gone a few hundredyards, and it was evidently useless to try to advanceuntil the weather cleared a little. Part of the forcetherefore returned to Ghizar, where they couldobtain food and shelter ; but B
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