At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative

by John Alfred Gray

AT THE
COURT of the AMÎR
A NARRATIVE

BY
JOHN ALFRED GRAY, M.B. Lond.
Late Surgeon to H.H. The Amîr of Afghanistan

HAND-MADE AFGHAN RUPEE
STAMPED “AMÎR ABDURRAHMAN.”

LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
1895
[All Rights Reserved]

THE APOLOGY.

I would not have thought of inflicting a book on my long-suffering fellow-countrymen, but for the wish expressed by my publishers: for

“Every fool describes in these bright days

His wondrous journey to some Foreign Court.”