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]

Indus River, [111], [158]

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]

Malik, A, [51], [95]

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]

Pathan warriors, [267], [269]

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]

Povindah women, [191], [199]

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, [45], [110]

Thal, Branch dispensary at, [310]

Theft among the Afghans, [25]

Thieves and outlaws in the hospital, [26]

Tirah, [48], [277]

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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