Crossword-Solution: KOTAL 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Aye, sahib, down into India! It was a long road, but the Afghans were very kind to us, providing us with food and blankets and giving some of us new horses for our weary ones, and so we came at last to Landi Kotal at the head of the Khyber, where a long-legged English sahib heard our story and said "Shabash!" to Ranjoor Singh--that means "Well done!" And so we marched down the Khyber, they signaling ahead that we were coming.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battal- Ions: the gloom that lay on Swat now lies Upon Kotal, On sad Kotal, whose people ululate For their loved Moolla late.

Put away his little turban, And his narghileh embrowned, The lord of Kotal--rural urban-- 'S gone unto his last Akhoond, 'S gone to meet his rival Swattan, 'S gone, indeed, but not forgotten.

These will be supported by a flying column, the exact location and composition of which are as yet undetermined.] The small area of the camp on the Kotal necessitated the formation of a second encampment in the plain of Khar.

Seven miles from the Kotal Camp, it crosses the Amandara Pass, a gap in a considerable underfeature, which juts from the southern mountains.