guttural r, not used in English.
' = the Arabic letter 'ain, a guttural not used in English.

PRONUNCIATION OF THE PRINCIPAL ORIENTAL WORDS USED IN THIS BOOK

Afghan Jahan Nizam
Afghanistan Jamala Panjab
Afridi Jelalabad Panjabi
Allahu Akbar Kabir Pathan
Amir Kabul Patwar
Badakshan Kafir Peshawur
Baltistan Kalabagh Quran
Bengali Kalam Ram
Bezwada Karachi Ramazan
Bhagalpur Karim Risaldar
Bukhara Khalifa Rishikes
Chenab Khorasan Sadhu
Chilas Kohat Sanyasi
Chinarak Laghmani Saragari
Chitral Lohani Sardar
Derajat Majid Sarkar
Dharmsala Malik Subadar
Ghulam Mirzada Suliman
Hakim (ruler) Mughal Talib
Hakim (doctor) Multan Tamana
Hardwar Nanak Tirah
Hazara Narowal Waziristan
Islam Nezabazi

AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER

CHAPTER I

THE AFGHAN CHARACTER

Paradoxical--Ideas of honour--Blood-feuds--A sister's revenge--The
story of an outlaw--Taken by assault--A jirgah and its unexpected
termination--Bluff--An attempt at kidnapping--Hospitality--A
midnight meal--An ungrateful patient--A robber's death--An Afghan
dance--A village warfare--An officer's escape--Cousins.

The East is the country of contradictions, and the Afghan character is
a strange medley of contradictory qualities, in which courage blends
with stealth, the basest treachery with the most touching fidelity,
intense religious fanaticism with an avarice which will even induce
him to play false to his faith, and a lavish hospitality with an
irresistible propensity for thieving.

There are two words which are always on an Afghan's tongue--izzat
and sharm. They denote the idea of honour viewed in its positive and
negative aspects, but what that honour consists in even an Afghan
would be puzzled to tell you. Sometimes he will consider that he
has vindicated his honour by a murder perpetrated with the foulest
treachery