At the Court of the Amr
by John Alfred Gray (9781150430022)

At the Court of the Amr (Book)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited Subjects: Afghanistan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: AT THE COURT OF THE AMIR CHAPTER I ON THE ROAD TO KABUL The start and the wherefore. Unsettled condition of Afghanistan. Departure from Peshawur. JumrQd Fort and the Watch. tower. The Afghan guard. The Khyber defile. Eccentricities of Rosinante. Lunch at Ali Musjid. Pathan villages. Pathans, their appearance and customs. Arrival at Landi Kotal Serai. The Shenwar i country Caravan of Traders. Dakka. Dangers of the Kabul River. Mussaks. Camp at Bassawal. Chahardeh. Mountain road by the river. Distant view of Jelalabad. It was with no small amount of pleasurable excitement that I donned the Afghan turban, and with Sir Salter (then Mr.) Pyne and two other English engineers, started from Peshawur for Kabul to enter the service of the Amir. I had made the acquaintance of Mr. Pyne in London, where I was holding a medical appointment. He had returned to England, after his first short visit to Kabul, with orders from the Amir to buy machinery, procure engineering assistants, and engage the services of an English surgeon. I gathered from his yarns that, for Europeans at the present day, life among the Afghans was likely to be a somewhat different thing from what it was a few years ago. In the reigns of Dost Mahomed and Shere Ali it was simply an impossibility for a European to take up a permanent residence in Afghanistan; in fact, except for occasional political missions, none was allowed to enter the country. We do, indeed, hear of one or two, travelling in disguise, who managed to gather valuable facts concerning the country and its...

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