Note 118 — Chapter XIII · AFRIDIS: OPERATIONS CONTINUED.[112] KHYBER PASS AFRIDIS.
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The requirements of expeditionary carriage always weigh with especial hardship on the Punjab; during the summer of 1897 the Deputy Commissioners in that Province impressed about 100,000 animals and 25,000 owners, and of these numbers not one in five was actually required and sent to the front.