With the Zhob Field Force, 1890Macmillan and Company, 1895 - 232 pagina's Looks at the British exploration of the Zhob Valley and the Zhob River. |
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18th Bengal Lancers 3rd Beluchis 6th Bengal Cavalry ADA CAMBRIDGE Apozai arrived Author baggage bhussa British Bungal Khan camels camp camping-ground Captain MacIvor Chuhar Khel Dhana cloth Colonel Nicolson Colonel Nicolson's column Colonel Ross commissariat Company Crown 8vo Dera Ismail Khan Dhana Sir distance district Drazand Edition EDMUND GOSSE elevation escort expedition Fcap feet Gomal ground Gustoi HALL CAINE halted Headquarters column heliograph hills Hindu Bagh Kach Kahol Kanozai Kazha King's Own Yorkshire Kotal Kundar Kundar river Kuriawasta Kurrum Light Infantry Loralai maliks miles Mogul Kot morning Mountain Battery mules Murgha Namur Kalan native Nigange nullah o'clock October party Parwarrah passed Portrait Quetta rifles road rocks route Sappers Sappers and Miners Sharan Sheranis Shinakorah Sir George White Sir Robert Sandeman steep Tahnishpa Takht-i-Suleiman tangi track tribe tribesmen troops Vihowa village Volume water supply WILLIAM HEINEMANN'S LIST Yorkshire Light Infantry Zhob Field Force Zhob Valley Ziarat
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