| PAGE |
| Introduction | [1] |
| CHAPTER I |
| Early Relations between East and West—Greeceand Persia and Early Tribal Distributions onthe Indian Frontier | [11] |
| CHAPTER II |
| Assyria and Afghanistan—Ancient Land Routes—PossibleSea Routes | [39] |
| CHAPTER III |
| Greek Exploration—Alexander—Modern Balkh—TheBalkh Plain and Baktria | [58] |
| CHAPTER IV |
| Greek Exploration—Alexander—The Kabul ValleyGates | [94] |
| CHAPTER V |
| Greek Exploration—The Western Gates | [135] |
| CHAPTER VI |
| Chinese Explorations—The Gates of the North | [169] |
| CHAPTER VII |
| Mediæval Geography—Seistan and Afghanistan | [190] |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| Arab Exploration—The Gates of Makran | [284] |
| CHAPTER IX |
| Earliest English Exploration—Christie and Pottinger | [325] |
| CHAPTER X |
| American Exploration—Masson—The Nearer Gates,Baluchistan and Afghanistan | [344] |
| CHAPTER XI |
| American Exploration—Masson (continued)—TheNearer Gates, Baluchistan and Afghanistan | [390] |
| CHAPTER XII |
| Lord and Wood—The Farther Gates, Badakshanand the Oxus | [411] |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| Across Afghanistan to Bokhara—Moorcroft | [442] |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| Across Afghanistan to Bokhara—Burnes | [451] |
| CHAPTER XV |
| The Gates of Ghazni—Vigne | [462] |
| CHAPTER XVI |
| The Gates of Ghazni—Broadfoot | [470] |
| CHAPTER XVII |
| French Exploration—Ferrier | [476] |
| CHAPTER XVIII |
| Summary | [500] |
| INDEX | [531] |