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" If mile an hour; a large number would no doubt travel slower, and much must depend on the breadth of the road. The greatest difficulty they had to contend with was crossing streams, and while marching in the Karakash Valley they were sometimes obliged... "
The Roof of the World: Being a Narrative of a Journey Over the High Plateau ... - Page 26
by Sir Thomas Edward Gordon - 1876 - 172 pages
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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth ...

Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth - 1875 - 654 pages
...liable to shift. On fair ground where they travelled with a broad front they marched at the rate of If mile an hour; a large number would no doubt travel...two men, I should say, could easily drive and manage an hundred. On arrival in camp they were unloaded, and turned out to shift for themselves till dark,...
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The Leisure Hour, Volume 42

1893 - 900 pages
...greatest difficulty they had to contend with was crossing streams. . . . Not only were their fleeces liable to become damaged, but the weight of water...should say, could easily drive and manage a hundred. The fact that a flock of sheep carrying 2O-1I). loads should be able to march 330 miles in a month...
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