item: #1 of 7 id: 11902 author: Burslem, Rollo Gillespie title: A Peep into Toorkisthan date: None words: 43857 flesch: 52 summary: The ague, which is usually accompanied by fever, is of a kind very difficult to shake off, gradually weakening the sufferer till he sinks under its influence; the natives themselves are by no means free from its strokes, to which attacks every stranger who remains for many days in the vicinity of the marshes is liable. The mouth of the cave was small, and no sooner did the invaders rush in than they were cut down by those inside; in vain were more men thrust in to take the place of those slain; the advantages of position were too great, and they were obliged at length to desist. keywords: affgh[=a]n; bamee[=a]n; beg; british; c[=a]bul; cabul; character; chief; country; course; day; distance; dost; enemy; force; fort; good; ground; head; hills; horse; kh[=a]n; kind; koollum; left; man; meer; men; miles; morning; mountains; nature; night; party; pass; place; reader; return; road; rock; sturt; time; toorkisth[=a]n; valley; way; wild cache: 11902.txt plain text: 11902.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 15171 author: Griffith, William title: Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries date: None words: 203490 flesch: 69 summary: The banks of the Naree are clothed with small _Furas_, which in these parts are always encrusted with saline matter, or, as it would seem, pure salt. _6th_.--Not much cultivation was observed on the road to-day, which extended over a naked marshy saline plain, or through a _Kureel_, and small _Jundy_ and _Phulahi_ district. keywords: a.m.; abies; abundance; air; appearance; arborea; artemisia; ascent; assam; bank; barren; base; beautiful; bed; berberis; birds; black; body; boundary; brown; cabul; camp; change; chief; churra; close; commences; common; compositae; consists; country; course; cultivation; cut; day; days; deal; degrees; descent; direction; distance; ditto; dry; east; elevation; etc; euphorbia; evening; extent; face; features; feet; ferns; ficus; fields; fine; fish; flower; foliis; following; foot; form; fort; fruit; gaultheria; general; genus; good; grasses; grassy; green; ground; half; halting; head; heavy; height; high; hills; hours; houses; journey; jungle; leaves; left; length; level; like; limestone; little; looking; low; major; man; march; means; miles; mimosa; mogoung; morning; mosses; mountains; nature; near; new; north; northern; nullah; number; oaks; occurs; ones; opposite; p.m.; panee; parts; pass; passing; path; pendula; people; pinus; place; plains; plants; point; polygonum; portion; present; primula; quercus; rain; range; rare; ravine; red; remains; rhododendron; rice; ridge; right; river; road; rocks; rosa; route; running; runs; saccharum; salix; sand; saw; season; sides; size; snow; soil; sort; south; species; specimens; spots; stones; stony; stream; summit; surface; tea; temperature; thermometer; thibaudia; thing; time; town; trees; uncommon; upper; valley; vegetation; view; village; water; way; weather; west; wheat; white; wind; woods; yards; yellow; yesterday cache: 15171.txt plain text: 15171.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 32231 author: Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton) title: Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches date: None words: 102767 flesch: 62 summary: For instance, in Bannu a well-inclined Mullah dare not read a Bible except in secrecy, while in Kurram I have frequently seen Mullahs publicly reading and commenting on the Holy Word to large groups of Khans and other men. Sometimes he will consider that he has vindicated his honour by a murder perpetrated with the foulest treachery; at other times it receives an indelible stain if at some public function he is given a seat below some rival chief. keywords: afghan; afghanistan; alam; bannu; bazaar; bed; border; boys; british; case; chapter; chief; christian; christianity; church; country; day; days; death; doctor; english; father; find; friend; frontier; god; going; good; government; gul; hand; head; hindu; home; hospital; house; india; influence; journey; khan; left; life; man; medical; men; miles; mission; missionary; morning; mountain; muhammadan; mullah; native; night; number; officer; patients; people; place; police; power; prayers; religion; river; round; sahib; school; set; son; taib; thought; time; tribes; valley; village; visit; water; way; wife; women; work; years cache: 32231.txt plain text: 32231.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 33496 author: Taylor, William title: Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan date: None words: 36391 flesch: 60 summary: There have been few men in command whose personal qualities have more endeared him to those who served under him than Sir Henry Fane. Few men have left behind them a memory so associated with every thing that is valuable and estimable in social and military life. keywords: affghan; army; arrival; artillery; bombay; british; cabul; camp; candahar; cavalry; chapter; chief; day; days; enemy; fire; general; ghuznee; hills; horse; infantry; left; lieutenant; light; majesty; men; native; officers; order; party; place; regiment; route; shah; sir; time; town; troops; way cache: 33496.txt plain text: 33496.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 42970 author: Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir title: The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative date: None words: 141684 flesch: 57 summary: The defiles of the Kabul River are here impassable, but they can be turned by mountain routes, and Alexander's force, which included the Hyspaspists, who were comparatively lightly armed, with the archers, the companion cavalry and the lancers, was evidently picked for mountain warfare. An early Tibetan explorer (the celebrated Abbé Huc) told a tale of a certain Englishman named Moorcroft, who was reported to have lived in Lhasa for twelve years previous to the year 1838 and who was supposed to have been assassinated on his way back to India _via_ Ladak. keywords: account; afghanistan; alexander; ancient; arab; asia; badakshan; balkh; baluchistan; bamian; british; burnes; capital; central; centuries; century; chief; cited; city; coast; country; course; days; description; desert; direct; east; exploration; fact; feet; ferrier; force; frontier; general; ghazni; ghur; good; greek; helmund; herat; high; hills; hindu; history; idrisi; india; indus; information; journey; kabul; kandahar; khan; knowledge; known; kunduz; kush; land; left; line; little; long; makran; masson; mediæval; miles; military; modern; mountain; near; north; northern; open; oxus; pass; passes; people; persian; place; plains; point; position; present; records; river; road; route; rud; ruins; sea; seistan; south; time; town; trade; turkistan; valley; water; way; west; western; wood; world; years cache: 42970.txt plain text: 42970.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 55779 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War date: None words: 128748 flesch: 78 summary: They are good men and faithful to me, and I rely upon them as I could not do on any of my own tribesmen. I don't like the idea of killing the man, Azim. You killed many men at Herat. keywords: 8vo; afghan; akbar; angus; army; attack; azim; british; burnes; cabul; camp; candahar; chief; city; country; course; crown; day; days; dost; doubt; edges; enemy; english; felt; fire; force; general; good; henty; herat; horses; illustrations; india; journey; khan; left; little; macnaghten; mahomed; man; men; morning; native; news; officers; page; party; pass; passes; people; persian; place; position; pottinger; round; shah; sir; story; thought; time; town; troops; way; work cache: 55779.txt plain text: 55779.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 7320 author: Rodenbough, Theophilus F. (Theophilus Francis) title: Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute date: None words: 30204 flesch: 64 summary: [Native Contingents, Independent States of India, [2] about 349,831.] ================================================================== Army (E'r'p'n) (Native) ================================================================== Engineers Officers 436 Men [3] 232 3,109 Cavalry Officers 198 304 Men 4,086 18,071 Royal Horse Artillery Officers Men Royal Artillery Officers 453 19 Men 10,809 1,842 Infantry Officers 1,400 1,068 Men 44,106 102,648 ------- ------- Aggregate All Ranks 61,488 127,263 ================================================================= Grand Aggregate 188,751 ================================================================= [Footnote 2: Cashmere 27,000, Nepaul 100,000, Hyderabad 44,000.] All Ranks 122,345 44,503 108,462 11,441 209,365 ================================================================== Grand Aggregate 469,116 ================================================================== INDIA. keywords: = =; afghanistan; army; artillery; british; camels; cavalry; central; city; country; feet; field; footnote; force; general; great; guns; herat; horses; india; infantry; kabul; kandahar; khan; line; march; men; miles; military; mountain; native; officers; pass; river; road; route; russian; service; sir; time; town; transport; troops; valley; war cache: 7320.txt plain text: 7320.txt