...Dreary indeed was the scene over which, with drooping spirits and ditmal forehodings, we had to hend our unwilling steps. Deep snow covered every inch...mountain and plain with one unspotted sheet of dazzling whiteness; and so intensely hitter was the cold, as to penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest...

...the departure of the Cabul force from the cantonments in which it had endured a two months' siege. " Dreary indeed was the scene over which, with drooping...mountain and plain with one unspotted sheet of dazzling whiteness ; and so intensely bitter was the cold, as to penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest...

...hundreds."* The circumstances under which the march commenced are thus described by the same author : — " Dreary indeed was the scene over which with drooping...penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest clothing."! Sad and suffering issued from the British cantonments the mingled mass of Europeans and Asiatics, of...

...hundreds."* The circumstances under which the march commenced are thus described by the same author : — " Dreary indeed was the scene over which with drooping...to penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest clothing."f Sad and suffering issued from the British cantonments the mingled mass of Europeans and...

...months, siege, to encounter the miseries of a winter march through a country of perhaps unparalled difficulty, where every mountain defile, if obstinately...penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest clothing. Sad and suffering issued from the British cantonments a confused mass of Europeans and Asiatics, a...

...January the march commenced, under circumstances of depression unparalleled in the annals of mankind. Deep snow covered every inch of mountain and plain...penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest clothing. Sad and suffering issued from the British cantonments a confused mass of Europeans and Asiatics, a...

...painful, and incapacitated him from mounting a horse without assistance. To quote his own words : " Deep snow covered every inch of mountain and plain...penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest clothing." The thermometer stood at several degrees below zero ; and men's beards were coated with icicles. There...

...January the march commenced, under circumstances of depression unparalleled in the annals of mankind. Deep snow covered every inch of mountain and plain...penetrate and -defy the defences of the warmest clothing. Sad and suffering issued from the British cantonments a confused mass of Europeans and Asiatics, a...

...painful, and incapacitated him from mounting a horse without assistance. To quote his own words : " Deep snow covered every inch of mountain and plain...unspotted sheet of dazzling white, and so intensely hitter was the cold as to penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest clothing." The thermometer...

...was the most disastrous that ever befel the English anus.] On the 6th of January the march commenced. Deep snow covered every inch of mountain and plain...penetrate and defy the defences of the warmest clothing. Sad and suffering issued from the British cantonments la confused mass of Europeans and Asiatics, a...