korabaut

Updated: May 1, 2025

Of course his mission, as he loved to call it, was perfectly unauthorized, and the man himself was a creature of farce. He probably came either by the Khyber or the Korabaut Pass, possibly even by the ordinary caravan-route from Yarkand, but felt it necessary for his mission's sake to pretend he had found some way through the rock barrier. I am afraid I cannot allow him to be taken seriously."

John Buchan - The Half-Hearted

There is some shooting to be had, and you will see for yourself the sort of country between here and Taghati." "But people come over here sometimes." "Yes, from the south, or by Afghanistan." "Not always. What about the Korabaut Pass into Chitral? Ianoff and the Cossacks came through it." "That's true," said the man, as if in deep thought.

John Buchan - The Half-Hearted