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Burnes was devastated. All his views had been ignored, and all his work destroyed. As Masson later reported, for a while Burnes “abandoned himself to despair. He bound his head with wet towels and handkerchiefs, and took to the smelling bottle. It was humiliating to witness such an exhibition, and the ridicule to which it gave rise.”
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
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