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but the authorities thought it unlikely 

 that troops would move before the cold 

 weather. 



Bad as the news was to a sportsman, 

 active service, or the chance of service, was 

 ample consolation to a soldier, and anxious 

 to reach the Regiment, we started at day- 

 break from the Glacier. At Gangoutrie we 

 made a halt for breakfast, intending to 

 proceed, but it snowed so hard, and the 

 men were all so dead beat that we were 

 forced to halt for the day. The freshest man 

 was selected and sent off to Missourie to \sij 

 our dak to Ferozepore, and in six days we 

 ourselves reached Missourie, and started the 

 same evening. The plains were almost red 

 hot, but fresh from the snow though we 

 were, the sun did not harm us, and in four 

 days we arrived at Ferozepore. 



The weather had been frightfully hot, and 

 my poor Regiment had suffered much upon 

 their march from Umballa. An officer and 

 eisfht men had died on the line of march in 

 one night, and had not the wind providen- 



