item: #1 of 4 id: 22117 author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage title: Across Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland date: None words: 228173 flesch: 66 summary: The digestion of Sistanis, although naturally good, is interfered with by the abuse of bad food, such as _krut_, or dried curd--most rancid, indigestible stuff. The track between the two latter stations was perfectly level, and on _jumbaz_ camels going at a good pace the journey had occupied eight hours and a half. keywords: abbas; afghan; ali; bank; bazaar; beluch; beluchistan; birjand; black; blue; british; buildings; business; camels; capital; caravanserai; carpets; case; centre; chah; chapter; city; consul; consulate; country; course; cut; day; days; deal; desert; direction; distance; east; end; english; european; excellent; eyes; fact; feet; find; flat; foot; foreign; going; gold; good; government; half; hand; handsome; head; high; hills; horses; hours; house; illustration; india; isfahan; journey; kerman; khan; kuh; left; line; looking; major; man; manner; men; miles; mountains; mud; natives; near; new; night; north; number; nushki; ones; people; persian; place; plain; point; portion; present; quetta; range; red; rest; river; road; rock; room; round; route; ruins; russian; sadek; salt; sand; saw; shah; sher; sides; silver; sistan; soldiers; south; stone; sun; tea; teheran; time; tower; town; track; trade; trees; view; village; wall; water; way; west; white; wind; women; work; year; yezd; zaidan cache: 22117.txt plain text: 22117.txt item: #2 of 4 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: #3 of 4 id: 41751 author: Vámbéry, Ármin title: Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand date: None words: 139619 flesch: 75 summary: There are very few large warehouses or wholesale dealers; and in spite of cotton, calico, and fine muslin being sold, not only in the Restei Tchit Furushi (the place where cotton is exposed for sale), which has 284 shops, but also in many other places in the city, I might boldly affirm that my friends 'Hanhart and Company,' in Tabris, dispose alone of as much of the articles above named as the whole city of Bokhara, in spite of the latter being denominated the capital of Central Asia. He had a Tekkie (monastery), {232} where a limited number of students were instructed _à la_ Bokhara. keywords: 8vo; account; afghan; asia; author; bank; bilal; bokhara; bread; camels; capital; central; chapter; character; chief; chinese; city; companions; country; day; days; death; dervish; desert; direction; distance; east; edition; emir; english; evening; eyes; fcap; felt; following; footnote; form; friends; good; government; great; gömüshtepe; hadji; half; hands; having; head; herat; history; hours; illustrations; inhabitants; journey; karavan; kervanbashi; khan; khanat; khiva; khokand; kirghis; left; life; little; maymene; mehemmed; men; miles; mollah; morning; new; night; nomads; north; number; order; oxus; pass; people; persia; persians; place; point; political; post 8vo; present; prince; religion; return; rev; river; route; ruins; russian; samarcand; sea; second; sir; slaves; son; south; spite; state; sultan; teheran; tents; thought; time; timour; travellers; turkestan; turkish; turkomans; use; vols; war; water; way; wild; woodcuts; years; yomuts; young cache: 41751.txt plain text: 41751.txt item: #4 of 4 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