Index
Abdurrahman, and the charm which saved his life, [116]
“Across our Indian Frontier,” by Colonel Wingate, [307]
“Administered Areas,” [50]
“Administrative Area,” The, [45]
Afghan, Character of the, [17];
revenge, [18];
vanity, [21];
bluff, [22];
cruelty, [22];
hospitality, [23];
theft, [25];
religion, [33];
tribal jealousy, [60]
Afghan public dances, [27]
Afghan rule in the Kurram Valley, Remnants of, [58]
Afghan village school, An, [170]
Afghan women, [190]
Afghans as road-makers, [202]
Afghans, Origin of the, [31]
Afridis, The, their ignorance of religious teaching, [33], [59]
Ahl-el-Kitab, or Children of the Book, [106]
Alam Gul, [169]
Amal Khan, [146]
Amir of Afghanistan, his visit to Lahore, [141];
and native colleges, [148]
Amputation, Repugnance to, [80]
Annexation sometimes inevitable, [65]
Ascetics, [211]
Austerity, and the accumulation of merit, [231]
Badragga, or guide, [76]
Bahadur Khan, [72]
Balghami, or tea-cups, [100]
Bangash and Turis, [55]
Bangi Khel Khattak tribe, [112]
Bannu, [63]
Bannu school course, [144]
Beas River, Crossing the, [249]
Bedsteads of the country, [100]
Bhang, or Indian hemp, [124]
Biblical names among the Afghans, [32]
Bigotry, An instance of, [245]
Blood-feuds, [110]
Blood-letting amongst the Afghans, [41]
Bluff, a characteristic of the Afghan, [22]
Bolan Pass, The, [62]
Bombay, Football at, [161]
Bombay, Our adventure at, [252]
Brahmans and Sanyasis, [220]
Branch dispensaries, Advantages of, [311]
British rule in the Kurram Valley, [59]
“Buried Cities of Khotan, The,” [306]
Calcutta, Attack on the Football team in, [163]
Cataract a common complaint, [42]
Chadar, or shawl, [132]
Charms and amulets, [36], [173]
Chauk, The village, [88]
Chenab River, The English soldier at the, [245]
“Chikki,” a notorious robber, [280]
Chinarak Fort, stronghold of “Chikki,” [284]
Christian Friars, The need for, [303]
Christianity and Shiahs, [57]
Christian’s Revenge, The, [75]
“Coffin,” derivation of the word, [35]
Conolly Bed, The story of the, [72]
Coolies: how they work, [94]
“Cousin, as great an enemy as a,” [30]
Cricket in Afghanistan, [156]
Curzon, Lord, and the North-West Frontier Province, [63]
Dam, a medical treatment, [39]
Dances, Afghan public, [27]
Delawar Khan, a notorious robber, [267]
Dentistry amongst the Afghans, [42]
Dera Baba Nanak, [247]
Dera Ismaïl Khan, [63]
Devotion of relatives, Touching, [85]
Dilag, The, of the faqirs, [237]
Divorce, [195]
Donald, Mr., the Political Officer, and the outlaw Sailgai, [21]
Donaldson, Murder of Captain, [150]
Dozakhi kanrai, or “hell-stones,” [121]
Drugs, Native use of, [40]
“Durand Line,” The, [48]
Dur Jamala, Sufferings of, [197]
Dzan and dam, two stock medical treatments, [38]
Early marriages, [145]
Education, four attitudes towards education, [140]
Extortion of native underlings, [275]
Eye diseases, Prevalence of, [79], [91]
Fanaticism, [124]
Faqirs, [37];
a profitable occupation, [38];
crudeness of their medical methods, [38], [211], [236];
and intoxicants, [239]
Football in Afghanistan, [155]
Football tour, A, [158]
Fort Saraghari and its brave defenders, [272]
“Friendlies,” [49]
Frontier campaigning, [267]
Frontier, Physical nature of the [62]
Frontier regiments, [270]
Gadian, [247]
Ganges Canal, The, [214]
Ghazi, A, [124]
Ghazi fanatics, [151]
Girls, Vigour of Afghan, [195]
“Gleaners’ Bed,” The, [87]
Government schools, Lack of religion in, [143]
Grand Trunk Road, On the, [243]
Graves and shrines of faqirs, [239]
Graves, The sanctity of, [35]
Gumal Pass, The, [63]
Gumatti Post, The, [107]
Hafiz, the Persian poet, [239]
Hakims, or native practitioners [42]
Halwa, or sweet pudding, [172]
Hardwar, a holy bathing-place, [214]
“Hate like a cousin,” To, [81]
Haughton, Colonel, [273]
Hazaras in the Kurram Valley, [56]
Hindu ideals, [212]
Hinduism a doomed religion, [301]
Hindu philosophies, [300]
Hindu, The indispensable, [51]
Hindus in the Kurram Valley, [56]
Hindu women, [199]
Hospital duties of the day, [89]
Hospitality of the Afghans, [23], [100], [122]
Hospitals and dispensaries, [311]
Hujra, or guest-house, [99]
Hyderabad, Football at, [159]
Hypnotism practised by yogis, [224]
Id-i-bakr, The, or Feast of Sacrifice, [32]
Id, or feast days, [27]
’Id-el-fitr, or Breaking of the Fast, [153]
Immorality and punishment, [192]
Indian schoolboy, Characteristics of the, [143]
Ingil and Tauret, [127]
Inoculation for smallpox, [43]
Intoxicants amongst the faqirs, [239]
Islam, a doomed religion, [301]
Itineration, Value and modes of, [98]
Izzat and sharm, the Afghan’s idea of honour, [17]
Jahan Khan, The story of, [202]
Jewish origin of the Afghans, Supposed, [31]
Jhelum River, Our difficulty in crossing, [241]
Jirgah, Comic end to a, [22]
Jogis and herbalists, [38]
Kafiristan, [306]
Kalabagh, [111]
Kalam Ullah, or Bible, [105]
Kalimah, The, or profession of faith, [37], [154], [270], [294]
Karachi, Landing at, [252]
Karbogha, Mullah, [118]
Karma, [217]
Khaiber Pass, The, [44]
Kharrak, Village of, [208]
Kitchens, Charitable, [226]
Kohat, [63]
Kurram River, The, [44]
Kurram Valley, The, [54]
Kurram Valley, Hill tribes in the, [55]
Laghman, Valley of, [202]
Lala Musa, [244]
Lawrence, Lord, and his policy, [61]
Machinery amongst the Afghans, [93]
Malang, or wandering dervish, [237]
Manak Khan, The story of, [257]
Mania or dementia of Sadhus, Various forms of, [225]
Marriage customs and laws, [193]
Marwat, The women of, [191]
Mast, [239]
Matamkhanas, Village, [58]
Materialism, The grave danger of, [142]
Medical methods, Crudeness of the native, [38]
Medical missions, The need for, [308]
Medical missions as pioneer agencies, [68]
Medical treatment, Crudeness of native, [38];
women’s knowledge of, [40]
Militia Sepoys, [119]
Mirzada, the beggar, [87]
Mirza’s High School at Gadian, [247]
Missionary as matchmaker, [207]
Mission v. Government schools, [142]
Mission outposts on the North-West Frontier, [305]
Mission press, The, [94]
Mission school, The, [93]
Mission school, Work in the, [147]
Mission work not to be gauged by the number of converts, [296]
Monkeys, Sacred, [218]
Monogamy v. polygamy, [195]
Monotheism and Pantheism, [212]
Moulvi Muhammad Sadiq, [247]
Muezzin, The, [89]
Muhammad Sarwar, or “Chikki” the “Lifter,” [280]
Muhammad Taib, talib, [126];
conversion, [129];
abduction, [131];
recovery, [132];
a prisoner, [136];
relapse, [138]
Muhammadan women, [199]
Mullahs and the Bible, [57];
their influence, [65];
their ignorance, [104];
opposition, [106];
arguments
concerning prayer, [116];
Mullah Povindah, [116];
wordy warfare, [117];
the Mullah and the smith, [118];
Karbogha, [118];
and fanatics, [125];
a converted m., [133];
Alam Gul, [185];
and the Gospels, [206];
and faqirs, [238]
Mullahs and Faqirs: Khodadad, [31];
charms and amulets, [36];
one who walked through fire, [37]
Mutilation for immorality, [193]
Muzaffar Khan and the fanatic, [152]
Name, Aversion to mentioning one’s name, [200]
Names, Biblical, among the Afghans, [32]
Narowal village, [246]
Nezabazi, or tent-pegging, [153]
Noble College, Football at the, [160]
North-West Frontier Province, [63]
Nose, An artificial, or a new wife [194]
Operations in the hospital, [94]
Outlaws, [109]
Parda, or seclusion, [192]
Passes in the Frontier mountains, [62];
strategic value, [63]
Pat, or alluvial earth, [153]
Pathan regiments, [112]
Pathans, how they are best governed, [19]
Peiwar, a blood-feud at, [28]
Peiwar Pass, [44]
Penurious patient, A, [38]
Peshawur, [63]
Philosophies, Hindu, [300]
Pir Pangal Range, An ascetic of the, [233]
Poisoning scare, A, [69]
Police officer and the cartridge stealer, [274]
Police posts v. dispensaries, [68]
Police prosecution in Calcutta, A [166]
Political faqirs, [232]
Political officer, Authority of the, [50]
Povindah merchants, [157]
Povindah, Mullah, [116]
Prayer, Arguments concerning, [116]
Prejudices, [254]
Prescriptions as charms, [36]
Primary schools, [147]
Pulao, a native dish, [24]
Pulao, an Afghan dish, [155]
Punishment for immorality, [192]
Quails, Catching, [170]
Quazi Abdul Karim, [292]
Raghzas, or stony plain, [121]
Rangin, the outlaw, and Dr. Pennell, [24]
Ravi River, The, [246]
Revenge amongst the Afghans, [71]
Revenge, the predominant characteristic of the Afghan, [18];
the girl and her brother, [18]
Rishikes, Village of, [214], [219]
Roberts, Sir Frederick, [44]
Sacred water from Hardwar, [218]
Sacrifice among the Afghans, [32]
Sadhu and Christian compared, Vista of, [217]
Sadhus, [211]
Sadhus on bicycles, [214]
Sailgai, a notorious outlaw, [19]
Salt quarries at Kalabagh, [111]
Samadhs, or contorted positions, [224]
Sandeman, Sir Robert, exponent of the “forward policy,” [61]
“Scape-goat,” The, or the Qurban among the Afghans, [32]
School inspector, Visit of a, [171]
Self-denial, The question of, [213]
Seronai, the convert, [287]
Seyyid Badshah, ustad, conversion and murder of, [134]
Seyyids, [134]
Sharm and izzat, the Afghan’s idea of honour, [17]
Shekh Mahmud, The first branch dispensary opened at, [309]
Shiahs in the Kurram Valley, [57]
Shlozan village, [55]
Shrines, [34]
Sika Ram Mountains, [44]
Sikh soldiery, [271]
Smallpox amongst the Afghans, [42]
Stoddart, Colonel, [72]
Sufed Koh Range, The, [44]
Sunnis in the Kurram Valley, [57]
Surgery, Native, [40]
Taib Khan, [126]
Talibs, or students, [101], [126]
Tea, How it is made and served, [100]
Temple, A night in a, [220]
Thal, Branch dispensary at, [310]
Theft among the Afghans, [25]
Thieves and outlaws in the hospital, [26]
Tochi Pass, The, [63]
Tod, or kari, an Afghan game, [154]
Tonnochy, Colonel, and the outlaw Sailgai, [21]
Traditions, Afghan, concerning their origin, [31]
Travelling, Hardships of, [107]
Tribal feuds, [78]
Tumtum driver and his fare, The, [274]
Turis, The, [55]
Ustad, or teacher, [132]
Usury, [66]
Vanity of the Afghan, [21]
Vendetta, or blood-feud amongst the Afghans, [17];
at Peiwar, [28];
the chief of Shlozan, [29];
the causes, [30]
Village barber as surgeon, The, [41]
Village blacksmith as dentist, The, [42]
Village life, Attractions of, [99]
Waterfall, A narrow escape from a, [109]
Water-tank, The use of a, [146]
Wazir rising, A, [70]
Wazir tradition concerning their origin, [33];
their ignorance of religious teaching, [33]
Wazirs, [59];
an attack by, [258]
Waziristan, [48]
White, Captain, killed by the outlaw Sailgai, [21]
Wolff, Rev. Joseph, missionary to Bukhara, [74]
Wolff, the traveller, [31]
Women, Inferior position of Afghan, [190]
Women, Hindu and Muhammadan, [198];
Povindah, [191], [199];
Marwat, [191]
Women and medicine, [40]
Yakub Khan, [251]
Yoga, [230]
Yogis, [224]
Yunani, or Hippocratic medicine, [38]
Zaida, Town of, [136]
Zaimukht tribe, The, [285]
Zaman, a noted thief, [26]
Zyárat, or Holy shrine, [34]
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