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hard labour, a sentence which was afterwards considerably mitigated. In the midst of unavailing protestations, Khalik was photographed with shackles on, and, in his bitter resentment, he vowed that I should receive the same measure as Dagleish, who had been murdered by Dad Mohammed near the Karakoram Pass.
At Dak Pari, Cobbold had suffered from an attack of blood poisoning and had been carried thence to Gilgit
where we were hospitably received by the Political Agent, Captain A. H. MacMahon, C.S.I., C.I.E., and by Mrs. MacMahon, who had a most luxurious camp pitched for us in the delightfully cool shade of a large clump of trees a little below the Agency. The open-handed hospitality displayed was most generous in a country where everything but meat and milk has to be brought from India, on baggage animals during the few months in which the
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