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plains. The route they followed was the regular Jelalabad road up which 
the Turi mules always go. They met a large number of unarmed traders 
coming in from Jelalabad. They reached a point about 13,600 or 14,000 
feet high, but could not reach the highest point—Bodin Peak. The ridge was 
very steep and difficult and the path over snow-fields. From the point they 
reached they had a good view of the Fort at Kuram and all the peaks 
towards Khost. It was bitterly cold up there but they got angles to all the 
peaks they wanted. 
Harly in January the Survey party accompanied the expedition into 
the Khost valley, marching vid Jaji Maidan, Bakk Akubito Matin. From 
Mattin Capt. Woodthorpe explored the valley to the west, in the direction 
of Degan, and also accompanied a signalling party to a hill on the water- 
shed between the Shamil and Tochi rivers, near the small Waziri village of 
Nandir, and commanding an excellent view of the surrounding country. 
From this point heliographic communication was established with Bannu 
and Hazar Pir. On the 27th January the Force left Matin, marching 
back to the Kuram v7é Sabari, Esor, Hazar Pir and Ibrahimzai. Dur- 
ing this expedition the greater part of the Khost valley was surveyed and 
mapped on the ¢ inch scale, the part wanting being at the extreme west. 
After the return from Khost the survey party was engaged in making 
a route survey with plane-table and perambulator of the new road to Thall, 
vid Ibrahimzai, Hazar Pir and Ahmed-i-Shamu ; Capt. Woodthorpe also 
visited the Shobakgarh Range and fixed the position of the pass through 
that range to Khost. 
About the middle of April the Survey party accompanied the Force 
to Ali Khey] and remained there, surveying in the neighbourhood of the 
Peiwar, till the end of the month, the snow being about 18 in. deep on the 
hills at the time, and the weather very stormy and unfavourable for work. 
Capt. Woodthorpe, accompanied by Lieut. Martin, paid a second visit 
to the Matungeh Hill, near Ali Kheyl, but they were disappointed in not 
being able to see and communicate with Gandamak, for which purpose 
signallers had accompanied them. They had a fine view, seeing far away 
into the plains near Ghazni and also to the Shuturgardan Kotal. ‘The last 
1500 feet of the ascent was very trying, on account of the snow with which 
the hill was covered and a biting cold wind that was blowing at the time, 
but notwithstanding this they managed to get through a good deal of 
work before returning to camp in the evening. 
At the end of April Capt. Woodthorpe and Lieut. Martin went from 
Ali Kheyl vé Belt to make a reconnaissance of the Lakarai Pass at the 
request of General Roberts. 
From Belit the road lay along the bed of the Lalidar or Naridar stream 
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