IN THE KHYBER PASS.
♦ ROYAL TOURISTS AMONG THE WILD BORDER TRIBES. PESHAWAR, December 4. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove through the Khyber Pass to-day. After entering the pass the cavalcade, forming a long straggling procession, wound m and out among a jumble of barren und inaccessible heights, a square stone blockhouse at intervale dominating the only way from the north. Statuesque khaki-clad figures on the sky-line, singly or m twos and threes, with bayonets glistening m the sun, guarded the Royal visitors m a region where life is still l~ld cheap and intertribal reprisals are frequent. The road, wliich is maintained solely by our recent enemies, the Afridis, is opened twice weekly for the passage of caravans, but is always picketed. When Lundi Kotal. the last post m British territory, commanding the hills and defiles of Afghanistan, was reached, tho Royal party viewed from the roof of the. fort a. sham light intended to illustrate the methods of mountain warfare. I After, lunch they began the return journey and reached Peshawar safely.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10571, 24 January 1906, Page 3
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