Or, Through Afghan Passes. By G. A. HENTY. With 8 full-page Illustrations
by GORDON BROWNE, in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 5_s._
At a moment when Afghanistan is again the centre of interest, this
story of the last war in that country is especially appropriate. The
hero is apprenticed to a Yarmouth smacksman whose boat is run down in
the North Sea by a ship bound for the East. After being wrecked and
going through many stirring adventures among the Malays, he finds his
way to Calcutta, and enlists there in a regiment on the point of
going north to join the army forming at the mouths of the Afghan
passes. He accompanies the force under General Roberts to the Peiwar
Kotal, is wounded, taken prisoner and carried to Cabul, he is present
at the massacre of the mission, and at the subsequent fights round
Cabul. He is then transferred to Candahar, and takes part in the
battle of Maiwand, and the final defeat of the army of Ayoub Khan.