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With such a number of non-combatants the column was strung out for six or seven miles, and the rear-guard leaving one camp at 7 A.M. rarely reached the next fifteen to twenty miles distant before sundown. Routes. For operations in Afghanistan the general British base is the frontier from Kurrachee to Peshawur.
Sixty years ago some preferred it to the Suez route. A grant of money was made by Parliament, two iron steamers of small size were put into the river; and though one of them was sunk, the other went through to the Persian Gulf. "It was shown that this route was about a thousand miles less in distance than any other to Kurrachee, the nearest port in India.
Of course I cannot expect a young lady to understand the technical details of the mode, in which this is done, but you will understand that by tests taken at either end the damage appeared to be about 118 miles from Kurrachee, and a telegraph steamer was sent with an electrical and engineering staff to repair it.
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