 | John Shipp - 1829 - 308 pagini
...Rumours were flying about, and strange stories were circulated ; but the prevailing opinion was, that we must give up the campaign, on account of an impossibility...hopeless. There was a small ravine branching off from th< bed of a dry river, in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access... | |
 | 1829 - 622 pagini
...Ochterlony, were ascending the ghauts to attack the Nepaulese forces in their mountain fortresses : ' There was a small ravine branching off from the bed of a dry river in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access to some deep cavern. From thence the spies last came. The... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 616 pagini
...Oehterlony, were ascending the ghauts to attack the Nepaulese forces in their mountain fortresses : ' There was a small ravine branching off from the bed of a dry river in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access to some deep cavern. From thence the spies last came. The... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 pagini
...mountainous districts of India. Such a scene will be best described in the words of an eye-witness: — " There was a small ravine branching off from the bed of a dry river, in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access to some deep cavern. * * * * We entered this little gaping... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 pagini
...mountainous districts of India. Such a scene will be best described in the words of an eye-witness: — " There was a small ravine branching off from the bed of a dry river, in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access to some deep cavern. * * * * We entered this little gaping... | |
 | 1844 - 312 pagini
...mountainous districts of India. Such' a scene will be best described in the words of an eyewitness : " There was a small ravine, branching off from the bed of a dry river, in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access to some deep cavern. * * * * We entered this little gaping'... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1867 - 518 pagini
...conveying cannon up steep passes in the mountainous districts of India. In one of their marches, he says, " there was a small ravine branching off from the bed of a dry river, in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access to some deep cavern. . . . We entered this little gaping... | |
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Travels, ii. 86. guns up the steep passes, or ghauts, which are so formidable in the mountainous districts of India. Such a scene will be best described in the words of an eye-witness: — " There was a small ravine branching off from the bed of a dry... 