...Cabul, in the words of Lieutenant Eyre: "At starting, large clods of hardened snow adhered so firmlyto the hoofs of our horses, that a chisel and hammer...dislodge them. The very air we breathed froze in its * While these pages are going through the press, the works of Lady Sale and Lient. Eyre have been re-published...

...it was generally believed that the majority of the regiment had absconded during the night to Cabul. At starting, large clods of hardened snow adhered...without molestation, though numerous small bodies of Affghan horse and foot were observed hanging about our flanks, and moving in a parallel direction with...

...was generally believed that the majority of the regiment had absconded during the night to Kaubul. At starting, large clods of hardened snow adhered...coating of small icicles on our moustaches and beards.' At Bootkhak, captain Skinner, on finding Ukiibar Khan to be encamped near at hand, obtained an audience...

...it was generally believed that the majority of the regiment had absconded during the night to Cabul. At starting, large clods of hardened snow adhered...its passage out of the mouth and nostrils, forming u coating of small icicles on our moustaches and beards. The advance proceeded onward without molestation,...

...only chance of escape from the dangers that threatened us." The cold was so intense that the breath froze in its passage out of the mouth and nostrils, forming a coat of small icicles on the men's moustaches and beards. Even at this early stage of the retreat,...

...accomplished a distance of only ten miles from Cabul." At starting on the second day, (says Lieutenant Eyre,) large clods of hardened snow adhered so firmly to...very air we breathed froze in its passage out of the month and nostrils, forming a coating of small icicles on oar moustaches and beards. At length, on...

...from Cabul." " At starting on the second day," says Lieutenant Eyre; "large clods of hardened suow adhered so firmly to the hoofs of our horses, that...coating of small icicles on our moustaches and beards." At length, on the morning of the third day, the greatly diminished force approached this stupendous...

...a distance of only ten miles from Cabul." " At starting on the second day," says Lieutenant Eyre; " large clods of hardened snow adhered so firmly to...breathed froze in its passage out of the mouth and nostrili, forming a coating of small icicles on our moustaches and beards." At length, on the morning...