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 CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SIY AH -POSHES 191 lofty mountains full of snow and ice and passing through narrow defiles, rolling in many places over precipices and sliding over the icy surface, they finally got out of the mountains and into the open country. AN AFGHAN PASS. When Mohammad Azad had extricated himself from the mountains and reached the fortress of the Siyah- poshes, he found it deserted, for they had abandoned it from their dread of the army of Islam and had taken refuge in their mountain defiles.