Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw.

  • Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854-1904.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REVOLVER RR ACT ICE 1888] very tidy our clothes get full of it. I am so amused to hear from Oghi that Dr. Welch for about two hours, was under the impression that our escort had followed us immediately, and that when he discovered that it had not, he became very anxious till he heard of our safe arrival at Abbottabad. For my own part, it being broad daylight and the road crowded with convoys, 1 felt all right and never expected it; but I do think our journey from Ilaripur here was really dangerous. Just think what a fuss there would have been if we had been cut to pieces by the Hassanzais on the way ! Last evening we went right down to the river and sat on a rock watching the water, and some natives going across with loads of grass on their backs: they blow out a masak (leather water-bag) with air and float themselves over, swimming with their legs in a very clever way. It is such a queer place; the black craggy rocks, grey granite shingle and deep white sand are far more like a seashore than anything else, and nothing grows but little scrubby bushes. We may not leave the camp except in one direction, and I fear we shall not be able to ride at all. The only thing we are very desirous of doing is to get over the top of a certain ridge not far off, from where one can look down on the place of the big fight. There will be no risk, for the tribes are all sending in their submission, and not a shot has been fired since the fort belonging to the Ghazis (fanatics) was blown up. Last evening we went out with Dr. Fawcett and had some revolver practice, and rather distinguished ourselves at fifteen yards; when steadying one hand with the other I shoot really very well. Oct. 24.—The sun is intensely hot here, but the