INDEX
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A
Abdur Rahman, Amir—
Admiration for Gladstone, Bismarck, McMahon, and General White, 118-119
Afghans in Australia, and, 284
Amusements, 105-108
Anecdote of, when at war with his family, 117-118
Anecdote of, when in Russia, 116
Attendants (slave boys), 108-110
Attitude towards moullahs, 269
Attitude towards working mines, 261, 305
Aversion to railways, 305
Burial, 130
Character, 117, 118
Conduct at festivals, 207
Customs, 105, 106
Death, 126
Deserted during earthquake, 256
Doctor and medicine, 104
Drinking-water, 104
Favourites, 124
Fled from cholera to Paghman, 162, 200
Fond of flowers, 107
Food, 103
Government, 98 seq., 102
Guard, 105
Hat with diamond star, 133
Imported Russian spy system, 151
Interest in trade and mechanics, 229, 233
Method of putting down robbery, 28
Offence of writing reports concerning him to the Indian Government, 152
On Afridi rising, 110-112
On English Parliament, 114
Palaces, 51-52, 102
Personal appearance, 37
Petitions to, 138
Plans for his country, 113, 117, 304
Policy of getting rid of influential men, 289 seq.
Policy towards England, 110, 113 seq., 123, 208
Preparations for fighting or travelling, 104
Punishments, 157 seq., 162 seq., 170, 300
Reads letter from spy in Russia to author, 303
Reception of author, 38
Reception of Nasrullah Khan, 32
Sons, his treatment of them, 120, 121, 293
Stays at Nasrullah’s house, 121
Story of Moullah and, 15
Subjugated the Hazaras and Kafris, 63
Sufferings from gout, 108, 125
Title, “Light of Religion and Faith,” 123, 133
Tomb prepared at Kila Asham Khan, 129
Views on Boer War, 115
Afghanistan—
As a buffer state, 298
Condition of country for warfare, 226
Difficult to enter, 308
Afghans—
Admire fat men, 89
Characteristics, 61, 62, 65 seq., 78, 92, 100, 138, 227, 276
Colony in Australia, 283, 284
Complexion, 61
Discontented, 298
Family feuds, 66
Fond of children, 184
Lost tribes of Israel and, 62
Mode of meeting friends, 6
Policy of arming, 300
Religious fanatics, 288
Sympathy with English justice and government, 301
Workman, 235
Afridi rising, 110
Aminoolah, Sirdar, 110, 120
Amirs—
Internal policy, 307
Powers and duties, 98
Amusements, 68, 205
Animals, clean and unclean, 284
Apricots, 239
Arabic, children taught to read, 65
Arak fortified palace, 36
Abdur Rahman’s body taken to, 128
Described, 51, 52
Army, 299
As a fighting machine, 225-227
Generals have no knowledge of modern warfare, 225
Asman Heights, 162, 164
Water-marked, 259
Astrologers, 84
Author—
Accompanies Shahzada to Kabul, 2
Appointment and work as engineer, 231-233
Assaying and reporting on minerals, 262
Attacked by Ghazis, 181
Exhibition of cinematograph, 141
First visit to Kabul, 1889, 166
Hindustani servant, 187
House and garden in Kabul, 177
Illness at Kandahar, 19
Inspects powder-shop, 183
Journey from Kabul to Peshawar, 308 seq.
On jury, 208
Presents from princes, 196
Quarters at Kabul, 33, 41
Quarters at Kandahar, 14
Received by Amir, 35, 36 seq.
Ride from Kabul to Peshawar, 11, 309 seq.
Riding and cycling, 176
Shooting on chamans, 175
Story of servants’ superstition, 78
Ayoob Khan, 112, 293
B
Baber, summer palace at, 52
Baghibala palace, 52, 107
Abdur Rahman dies in, 127
Bala Hisar, Kabul, rased to the ground, 303
Bala Hisar, well in, 149
Barikab, 311, 314
Barracks, 219
Basawal, 316
Bazars, buying in, 190, 192 seq.
Bazars, lawlessness in, 192
Beating with sticks, 160
Blizzard, 312
Blue pigeon, 174, 176
Boer war, 115
Boistan serai palace, 36, 52
Abdul Rahman, buried in, 130
Audience chamber in, 38
Bribery, 100
British Agent in Kabul, 301
Brown, General Sir J., meets Shahzada at Chaman, 1
Budkhark, 311
Burial of household treasure, 129
Buying in bazar, 190, 192 seq.
C
Camel meat, 88
Camels, ill-adapted for travelling over snow, 24
Camps, description of, 8
Caravans, 242
Carpets, 240
Carriers for hire, 195
Cattle-breeding, 240
Cavagnari massacred, 303
Chaman railway terminus near Afghan frontier, 1
Chamans, 174
Character of people, 64 seq.
Children, method of naming, 286
Children singing prayers on roof to avert calamity, 86
Chillum described, 89
Cholera epidemics, 45, 55, 87, 137, 162, 199, 200
Climate of Kabul, 53 seq.
Cloth manufactured, 240
Coal, 260, 263-264
Coinage and mint, 251
Cold and snow, 23, 25, 54
Copper ores, 260
Court jester, 108, 207
Courtship and marriage, 92 seq.
Cows, 194
Curios, Hindoo dealers and, 206
Curzon, Lord, requests Amir to visit him in Peshawar, 296
D
Daka, Afghan frontier post, 316
Daly, Mrs., lady doctor, 130, 182, 185
Not allowed to visit the Queen Sultana, 295
Treating cholera cases, 200
Dances, 72
Dancing-girls, 71
Darwaza Ghazni pass, 29
Death penalty, 98
Debt collecting, 250
Deh Afghanan, 35, 177
Dogs, 27, 46, 285
Donkeys, small size of, 14
Dress of men, 58
Drills, 214
Duck-shooting, 108, 175
Durbars, 99, 100, 105, 123
On festivals, 206
Durrah-i-Yusef, coal at, 263
Dust storms, 54
E
Earthquakes, 255 seq.
Elephant, story of mad, 139
Englishmen dining with Amir, 103
Europeans in Kabul, 123, 130, 173 seq.
Attend durbar on festivals, 206
Laws and, 208
Women and children, 184
Evil eye, the, 86
Execution, methods of, 168
Exports, 239
F
Fairies, 80
Fakirs, 271, 273
False reporting, 153
Famine of 1903, 197
“Fanah” (wedge) torture, 153-155, 248
Fanatics (ghazis), 181
Fat men, 89
Fatehabad, 311
Festivals, 279-281
Firman, 185
Fish in Kabul river, 175
Fishing in rivers, method of, 17
Fleischer family, 130
Fleischer, Mr., murdered, 175
Fleischer, Mrs., her German nurse, 185
Flour, price of, 194
Food, 87-89, 194-195
Lawful and unlawful, 284
Fowls, duck, geese, etc., raising, 194
Freight-carrying, 242
Fruit, dried, 239
Fuel in Government workshops, 230, 234, 263, 264
Funerals, 96-97
G
Games, 76
Gandamak, 311
Geology of country, 254 seq.
Ghazni, 23, 29;
described, 24
Ghulam Hyder, 289
Girdi Kutch, 316
Girls become “purdah” about eight, 77
Gold, 260
Gold mine, an abandoned, 20
Government, 98, 101
Government stores, 102
Governors of Kandahar, 13
Grapes, 239
Gravestones, 96-97
Guards given to European servants of Government, 181
Gulistan serai, Queen Sultana’s palace, 36, 52, 128
H
Habibullah Khan, Amir, 30, 31, 120
Acknowledged Amir, 127
Amusements, 139-141
Attendants, 109
Attitude towards fakirs, 273
Attitude towards moullahs, 270
Characteristics, 141, 207
Conduct on Abdur Rahman’s death, 127 seq., 294
Coronation, 132-134
Desires seaboard, 306
Disallowed petitions, 138
Forms a parliament, 124
In Arak, 137, 294
Interest in machinery, 230
Nominal head of army, 121
Position difficult, 298
Precautions regarding his food and drink, 104
Promises of reform, 137
Remains in Arak during cholera epidemic, 201
Speech at coronation, 133-134
Story of his cruelty, 161
Haddah moullah, 110-112
Hafiz, 273
Haj, pilgrimages to Mecca, 281
Hamams (Turkish baths) described, 34
Hamilton, Lieutenant, 225
Hazaras, 63
Coolies, 186
Mulberry diet, 87
Servants, 190
Heat during summer months, 320
Hindeki, summer palace at, 52
Amir Habibullah at, 297
Hindu dealers and curios, 206
Money-lenders in Kabul, 251
Hindustani servants and swindling, 187 seq.
Holidays, how spent, 69
Horse raising, 240
Houses of Kabul described, 50
I
Ignorance of numbers and telling the time, 92
Imports, 244
Insurrection expected on death of Abdur Rahman, 128, 131, 135, 295
Interpreters, 211
Irrigation, 13, 42, 241
J
Jagdalak, 311
Jelalabad, 311—
Described, 315, 317
District, tropical fruits in, 239
Governor of, 112
To Khyber, country between, 320
To Peshawar, five days’ journey, 316
Jidrani knife-dancers, 72
Jihad (religious war), 112, 203, 226, 267, 269, 299
“Jubah,” account of, 73 seq.
Jumrood fort, 316
K
Kabob, 88, 103
Kabul—
Bazar shops, 49
British agent in, 301
Climate, 53 seq.
Adapted for fruit-growing, 239
Description of city and country round, 42 seq.
Houses described, 50
Kotwali and soldier guards, 145
Kotwali office, 143
Mihman Khana, or guest-house, 33
Palaces, 51
People met in streets, 36
Prisons in, 146 seq.
Robberies in, 47, 144
Russian influence in, 297
To Peshawar, eight days’ journey, 309
“Wardi” sounded, 49
Workshops, 234
Kabul river, 42
At Jelalabad, 316, 319
Kabul valley, crater of ancient volcano, 254
Once a lake, 258
Kabulis, characteristics, 61, 62, 66, 78
Kabulis, consume large quantities of tea, 89
Kafris, 63
Boys punished for deserting, 167
Kandahar—
Described, 13, 14
District tropical fruits in, 239
Nasrullah Khan’s stay at, 12 seq.
Kandaharis, characteristics, 63
Khilat, 22, 29
“Khilat,” robes of honour, 134
Khuskh, Russian railway to, 114
Khyber Pass closed, 196
Khyber Pass, opened twice a week for travellers, 314
Kila Durani, 29
Kila Asham Khan, summer palace of Queen Sultana at, 52
Abdur Rahman’s tomb prepared at, 129
Kila Kazee, 30
Knife-dancers, 72
Kohistan, earthquakes in, 257
Koochee people, 88
As carriers, 242
Women, 243
Koran, account of, 268
Kotwal (magistrate), 138, 142 seq.
At Chaman terminus, story of, 6
Duties of, 47
Kotwali sepoys (policemen), 48, 143 seq.
Thieving propensities, 178-180
Kotwali stations, 145
“Kro,” the unit of distance, 10, 245
Kuzilbash people, 266
L
Ladysmith, defence of, 119
Languages of Afghanistan, 63-64
Latabund Pass, 310, 314
Letter-writers in bazars, 50
Letters, 209
How carried, 210
Postage, 211
Loneliness of life in Kabul, 173
Lunatics, 271
Lundi Kotal, British frontier post, 316, 322
M
Mahomed Ali, Sirdar, 120
Mahomed Omar, Sirdar, 30, 110, 120, 126, 133, 294
Acknowledges Habibullah as Amir, 127
Mahomedzai family, allowance from Government, 122
Mohammedan belief on true religions, 202
Marches, length of, 10, 25
Marriage customs, 94-95
Maulavi Najmudeen Aghondzada, Haddah moullah, 110-112
Melons, 317
Mills for grinding corn, 241
Mines, not worked, 261, 305
Mines, outcropping, 260
Mirzas (clerks), 245 seq.
Moullahs—
Influence and practices, 135, 267, 274
Preaching a new religion, 202
Story of Amir and, 15
Mukur, 22, 23
Mulberry diet, 87
Munzil Bagh, 19
Musak, for carrying water and crossing rivers described, 318
Musical instruments, 70
At Kandahar, 22
Musjids, 277
Mussulman year, how reckoned, 279
N
Nasrullah Khan, Shahzada, 40, 120
Builds house like Dorchester House, 121
Conduct on Abdur Rahman’s death, 126, 128, 133
Entry into Kabul, 31
Favourite wife dies of cholera, 201
Head of offices and mirzas, 121
Inspecting troops, 136
Journey from Chaman to Kabul, 2 seq.
Knowledge of his religion, 203
Mission to England, its object, 110
Routes from and to Kabul, 12
Stay in Kandahar, 12, 21
Visit to England, 1895, 1
Welcomed at villages and cities, 5, 11, 24
O
Officers, titles, and promotion, 223
Officials, 99, 101, 103, 109
Power over Abdur Rahman, 125
Princes and, 121
Salaries, 122
Titles, 123
Treatment of English residents, 123
Workmen and, 236
Old uniforms, 60
ʾOud Khels, thief tribe, 221-223
Oxus river, gold in, 260
P
Pack animals, 4, 242, 320
Paghman, summer palace at, 52
Abdur Rahman at, 162
Palaces in Kabul, 51
Parliament, 124
Persian, the Court language, 64
Petitions to Amir, 138
Pilau, 88, 103
Plots to get Abdur Rahman’s body, 129
Political situation, 289 seq.
Postage on letters and magazines, 211
Powder-making, accidents in, 237
Prayers, 276
Princes, Royal, their position and treatment, 120-122
Prisons, 302
In Kabul, 146 seq.
Well in Bala Hisar, 149
Prisoners: food and treatment, 148-150
Prisoners, revolt of, 147
Provisions from India, 194
Pul-i-Bagrami, Amir’s shooting-box at, 139
Punishments, 149 seq., 157 seq.
Pushtoo, 63
Q
Quail-shooting, 174, 176
Queen Sultana, 30
Influence, 126
Lived at Gulistan serai, 294
R
Racing, 75
Rafts for crossing river, 317
Railways, why not wanted, 305
Railways would be easy to make in Afghanistan, 29
Ramazan fast, 277
Regimental bands, 223, 224
Regiments, how named, 220
Religion, 266 seq.
Crimes and offences, 274
Revenue of country, 296
Road from Chaman to Kandahar, 29
Robberies—
And murders on roads, 27
By collectors of revenue, 123
In Kabul, 47, 144
Roberts, Lord, march to Kandahar, 113, 114
Roberts, Lord, rased Bala Hisar, 303
Roofs of houses used for exercise and sleeping, 205
Route to Kabul through Khilat, Mukur, and Ghazni, 22
Routes from India to Afghanistan, 12
Rupees, 252
Russian encroachments on frontier, 297
Russian influence in Kabul, 297
Russian railway to Khuskh, 114
S
“Sandalee,” for warming rooms, described, 90
Sayids, 272
Schools, 64
Seaboard desired, 306
Serais, 312
Servants in Kabul, 186
Shahrara palace, 52
Shaitans (demons), stories of, 81 seq.
Sheep raising, 194
Shere Ali, Amir, story of chief of ʾOud Khels and, 221
Shiah sect, 266
Shinwari tribe, 112
Shooting near Kabul, 174
Silk, where produced, 240
Singing, 70
Sirdar, title conferred only on Amir’s sons, 30
Smoking, 89
Snipe-shooting, 175
Snuff-taking, 90
Soldiers—
And arms, 213 seq.
Dress, 59, 213
Field-cooking utensils, 219
Guards, 3, 145
Length of service, 219
Medals, 218
Mode of life, 220
Pay, 218,
increased, 136
Qualities, 225
Ready to revolt on Abdur Rahman’s death, 131, 135-137, 295
Uniforms, 216
Spies, favourite accusation of, 152
Spies in foreign countries, 303, 306
Sponges, legend about, 84
Spy system, 99, 151
Abolished, 134
Stealing, punishment for, 166
Story-tellers, 75
Sundials, 91
Suni sect, 266
Superstition, stories of, 78 seq.
Swordstick combats, 73
T
Tea imported, 244
Timber, 240, 317
Time, how kept, 91-92
Tirah campaign, 300
Its effect on traffic, 196
Tobacco, 89
Tortures, 153 seq., 302
Trade and commerce, 229 seq.
Treasury, public and private, 101
Turkestanis, 63
U
Usbeg game of “Buz-bazee,” 315
Usbeg Lancers, 3
Usbegs, 63
W
Warming rooms, method of, 90
Weddings of different classes, 94-95
Weights and measures, 245
White, General, defence of Ladysmith, 119
Wives, plurality of, 287
Working hours, 205
Workmen, foreman and, 236
Pay of, 238
Workshops, 229 seq., 234
Women, laws of “purdah” suspended in time of war, 227
Women, not valued in Kabul, 198
Wrestling matches, 74
Y
Yakoob Khan, 112, 293
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