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With the Niti Field Force: sketches on the road to the Thibet Frontier, 1890. Creator: R. Taylor.

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With the Niti Field Force: sketches on the road to the Thibet Frontier, Himalayas, 1890. '1. Camp at Gunar, near the Border of Kumaon and British Garhwal. 2. "Napoleon crossing the Alps." 3. A Council of War. 4. Group of Ghoorka Pipers. From Camp Ramni, our Indian military correspondent, Major C. Pulley, sends us a few Sketches to illustrate the most recent expedition on the northern frontier of India. A small force of infantry...is making its way up towards the Thibetan frontier, with the object of checking hostile raids and marauding practices. Owing to the lateness of the season and the near approach of winter, snow might bar the progress of troops across the mountain passes; but a good deal of information would have been obtained which may prove useful in the future. The officers accompanying the troops are Captains Lyster and Rose, of the 1st Battalion 3rd Goorkhas, and Lieutenants Battye and Roberts, of the 2nd Battalion, with Surgeon Vost in medical charge, the whole under command of Brevet-Major Pulley, 1st Battalion 3rd Goorkhas. The Sketches need but little description, as most of our readers must be familiar with the appearance and ways of the Goorkhas [ie Gurkhas], though we have not all heard the sound of their bagpipes'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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