At the court of the Amîr : a narrative / by John Alfred Gray.

  • Gray, John Alfred.
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: At the court of the Amîr : a narrative / by John Alfred Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    They ride at a quick slmffling walk : the horse's near- side feet go forward together, and his off-side feet together—a camel's walk. It is an artificial pace, but very restful. There was a shorter route which we could have taken from Bassawal, avoiding Jelalabad altogether, but it was mostly over pebbly hills and desert plains, and was exceeding hot. From Dacca we had kept fairly close to, though not actually in sight of, the Kabul river. It makes a vast difference to one's comfort in a tropical or semi-tropical country to travel through cultivated land where, if only at intervals, there is something green to be seen. Few things are more fatiguing than the glare of a desert and the reflected heat from pebbles and rocks; we, therefore, chose the longer but pleasanter route.