A CARAVAN IN THE KHYBER PASS.

The following images are from the book "King's Empire" published in 2 volumes the early 1900s. The photographs were taken at the height of the British Empire. The books are available in higher resolution for download as PDF ebooks at www.ozebook.com

A CARAVAN IN THE KHYBER PASS. The history of the invasions of India has been written in blood and fire on every stone of the famous Khyber Pass. Through this great cut in the Himalayas the Cabul river forces its way to join the broad waters of the Indus near Attock. Through the Khyber Pass came back the last surviving member of Sir Robert Sale's ill-fated expedition (1842), and through it passed the avenging expedition under General Pollock. Backwards and forwards the tide of war has rolled, and even now the fierce tribes of the Khyber barely acknowledge the authority either of the British Government or of the Ameer of Afghanistan. But our illustration is taken in a time of peace, and we see the picturesque groups of a trading caravan halting in an opening of the dreary Pass. (Page 11.)