As we neared Khoor-Kabul the hills rose up on either side, and the mouth of that awful pass looked like a gateway into hell. Its walls were so stupendous that the rocky bottoms was in perpetual twilight; the dragging tread of the army, the bellowing of the beasts, the shouts and groans and the boom of shots echoed and rang from its cliffs. The Afghans were on the ledges and when Anquetil saw them he halted the vanguard, because it seemed certain death to go on.
Flashman, p.193, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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