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cover 1879 (12 May) XU5, with contents, to his sister at Cramond, redirected with Great Britain 1d. plate 217 to Hampshire, endorsed "From Lt. Craufurd 91st Highd on active service", bearing Natal 6d. indistinctly cancelled, backstamped upon arrival; letter headed "Fort Crealock". Photo.
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This place is about 9 miles from Fort Chelmsford - the 91st, half a Batallion of natives and two guns with a few engineers garrison it. They take a horrid long time to bring up supplies and say now we won't be able to move on for another month. A large convoy passed here yesterday for Fort Chelmsford and I shall fancy this road will see a good many more. Yesterday I was sketching the country round about here.
This place is about 9 miles from Fort Chelmsford - the 91st, half a Batallion of natives and two guns with a few engineers garrison it. They take a horrid long time to bring up supplies and say now we won't be able to move on for another month. A large convoy passed here yesterday for Fort Chelmsford and I shall fancy this road will see a good many more. Yesterday I was sketching the country round about here.