ters of district and a cantonment
with four battalions of Gurkhas. Population 11,506. At south end of
Orash Plain 4120 feet above sea level. Appropriately named after Captain
James Abbott (page 299).

~Bannu.~ See Edwardesabad.

~Cherat~ (~Peshawar~), 33.5 N.--71.5 E. Small hill sanitarium in Peshawar
near Kohat border, 4500 feet above sea level.

~Dera Ismail Khan~, 31.5 N.--70.6 E. Headquarters of district and a
cantonment. Population 35,131, including 5730 in cantonment. The Powinda
caravans pass through Dera Ismail Khan on their march to and from India.

~Dungagali~ (~Hazara~), 34.6 N.--73.2 E. Small sanitarium, elevation 7800
feet, in Hazara Galis, two miles from Nathiagali. Moshpuri rises above
it to a height of 9232 feet.

~Edwardesabad~ (~Bannu~), 33.0 N.--70.4 E. Headquarters of Bannu district
and a cantonment. Founded by Lieutenant (afterwards Sir Herbert)
Edwardes in 1848. Population 16,865. It is unhealthy owing to the heavy
irrigation in the neighbourhood.

~Fort Lockhart~ (~Kohat~), 33.3 N.--70.6 E. Important military outpost on
Samana Range, elevation 6743 feet. Saragarhi, heroically defended by
twenty-one Sikhs in 1897 against several thousand Orakzais, is in the
neighbourhood.

~Kohat~, 33.3 N.--71.3 E. Headquarters of district and a cantonment.
Population 22,654, including 5957 in Cantonment. On Khushalgarh--Thal
Branch of N.W. Railway.

~Mansehra~ (~Hazara~), 34.2 N.--73.1 E. Headquarters of _tahsil_. The two
rock edicts of Asoka are in the neighbourhood (pages 163 and 202).

~Nathiagali~ (~Hazara~), 34.5 N.--73.6 E. Summer headquarters of Chief
Commissioner of N.W.F. Province in Hazara Galis. Elevation 8200 feet. It
is a beautiful little hill station. Miran Jani (9793 feet) is close by,
and on a clear day Nanga Parvat can be seen in the far distance.

~Naushahra~ (~Peshawar~), 34 N.--72 E. Population 25,498, including 14,543
in cantonment. On railway 27 miles east of Peshawar. Risalpura, a new
cavalry cantonment, is in the neighbourhood.

~Shekhbudin~, 32.2 N.--70.5 E. Small hill station on Nila Koh on border
of Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu districts. Elevation 4516 feet. It is on a
bare limestone rock with very scanty vegetation and is hot in summer in
the daytime. Water is scarce. The Deputy Commissioners of Bannu and Dera
Ismail Khan spend part of the hot weather at Shekhbudin.

~Thal~ (~Kohat~), 33.2 N.--70.3 E. Important military outpost at
entrance of Kurram Valley. Terminus of Khus