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Afghán Ambála Amritsar Attock Bahawalpur bank Bannu Bár Bárí Doáb Canal Bashahr Biás border British cantonment capital Chamba Chenáb Chitrál Cultd area cultivation Delhi deodár Dera Ghází Khán Dera Ismail Khán east feet Ferozepore forests frontier Gilgit Government Gujrát Gurdaspur Gurgaon Hazára Headquarters hills Himálaya Hindu Hindu Kush Hissár Hoshyárpur India Indus irrigation Islám Jalandhar Jammu Jamna Játs Jhang Jhelam Jínd Kábul Kángra Karnál Kashmír Khaibar Kohát Kulu Kurram Ladákh Lahore Land Rev loam Ludhiana Lyallpur Mahárája Mianwálí Moghal mosque mountain Muhammadan Multán Murree Muzaffargarh N.W.F. Province north-west occupied Panjáb pass Patháns Patiala Peshawar Phulkian plains population rainfall Rája Rájputána Rájputs Ráví Ráwalpindí revenue river road Rohtak Salt Range Sháh Shahpur Sialkot Sikh Simla Sindh Singh Sirhind Sirhind Canal Siwáliks soil square miles Srinagar submontane Sulimán Sutlej Swát tahsil territory torrents town tract tribes Upper valley Wazíristán western wheat
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Page 110 - The stature is mostly tall ; complexion fair; eyes dark; hair on face plentiful; head long; nose narrow and prominent, but not specially long.
Page 120 - Hindu of the modern times is that he should be born of parents not belonging to some recognized religion other than Hinduism, marry within the same limits, believe in God, respect the cow, and cremate the dead.
Page 332 - A man must either be of the highest rank or live miserably. My pay is considerable, nor am I sparing of money ; yet does it often happen that I have not wherewithal to satisfy the cravings of hunger, the bazars being so ill supplied, and frequently containing nothing but the refuse of the grandees.
Page 106 - Mughal, the brutal Afghan, and the bully Sikh. Warriors and statesmen came and went; but there was no egress, and no wish on the part of the Kashmiris in normal times to leave their home. The outside world was far, and from all accounts inferior to the pleasant valley, and at each of the gates of the valley were soldiers who demanded fees. So the Kashmiris lived their self-centred life, conceited, clever, and conservative.
Page 332 - ... latter city as in our own capital, it cannot be greatly less. As respects the better sort of people, there is a striking difference in favour of Paris, where seven or eight out of ten individuals seen in the streets are tolerably well clad, and have a certain air of respectability; but in Delhi, for two or three who wear decent apparel, there may always be reckoned seven or eight poor, ragged, and miserable beings, attracted to the capital by the army.
Page 26 - Alps ; they are crowned by peaks whose wonderful altitudes are frozen beyond the possibility of vegetation, and are usually covered with snow wherever snow can lie. In Waziristan, hidden away in the higher recesses of its great mountains, are many valleys of great natural beauty, where we find the spreading poplar and the ilex in all the robust growth of an indigenous flora .... Among the minor valleys Birmal perhaps takes precedence by right of its natural beauty. Here are stretches of park-like...
Page 108 - There is little in the Dard to enlist the sympathies of the casual observer. He lacks the intelligence, humour, and fine physique of the Kashmiri, and though undoubtedly far braver than the latter, has none of the independent spirit and martial bearing which draws us towards the Patlian, despite all his failings.
Page 161 - ... and carried bows peculiar to their country, and daggers, and also battle-axes, called sagares. These, though they are Amyrgian Scythians, they called Sacae, for the Persians call all the Scythians Sacae. Hystaspes, son of Darius and Atossa, daughter of Cyrus, commanded the Bactrians and Sacae. 65. The Indians, clad with garments made of cotton, had bows of cane, and arrows of cane tipped with iron.
Page 25 - Powindah makes his way southwards with his camel loads of fruit and silk, bales of camel and goat hair or sheepskin goods, carpets and other merchandise from Kabul and Bokhara, and conveys himself through the length and breadth of the Indian peninsula .... He returns yearly to the cool summits of the Afghan hills and the open grassy plains, where his countless flocks of sheep and camels are scattered for the summer grazing
Page 65 - ... a cloudless region, always burning or freezing under the clear blue sky ; for so thin and devoid of moisture is the atmosphere that the variations of temperature are extreme, and rocks exposed to the sun's rays may be too hot to lay the hand upon at the same time that it is freezing in the shade.