Cabul or Afghanistan: the seat of the Anglo-Russian question

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by  Phil Robinson

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CONTENTS.
The Kingdom of Czbul, 1-Bomdaries: Plcysieal Featu~~easi zd
Products, 2-8.-3fountains, Rivers,Dlinerals, Vegetables, Animals
-Climate, 7.-Population, 8-21-General Character-The
Mghans proper, their language, descent, history, manners and cus-
tom, amusements, women-Othor races-Government amd Av??zy,
21-27-Religion-pro~ocid governors-court ogioials-regular
army-militia.-The Awzeer and his Paqnily, 27-37-Shere Ali
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Xhm, Abdullah Jao, Ahmed Ali, Yakub ahan,A bdul Rahnzan
Reeelzt Histog : Russia 012 tLe AfgJmn F?-ontier, 3744-The
UmballahDnrbar-aCzar's honour-Wakhan-Khiva-Turcomans
--Merv-Berat-Russian Itailways.-TAe Ameer's ffrievalzces,
44-50 -The heir eIect-TiVakhan-Seistan-Yakub .Khan-
Pesharvur Conference-Quetta-om Indian Frontier.-Eoutes,
50-2'1--Qaetta to Caodahar, 50-55-Candahar to Herat, 56-58.
Candabr to Ghuzni, 58-Thal, rib Ghuzni, to Candahar, 59-63
-Peshamr to Cabd, vil the IZhyber Pass, 63-71.-hntier
a?zd Zoztntain Passes, 72-85-Ebh7t, Brahoe, Bolan, &c.-
Suleiman Passes-Gomnl, Draband, I;;wam,&c.-a~ber-Khoord
IChyber-Korthein Passes-Passes in tha Interior-The Jloulz-
tain Dibss, 85-90-Jowaki bIockacie-Frontier policy-List of
chief tribes-Pej.sinn Gzdf Aflczirs, 90-1-Genealogy of Royal
Family of Cabn!, 92.
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SHERE AL1 XHAN, THE AMEER.

C A B U L
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A F G H A N I S T A N
BEINQ
A PAMPHLET OF FACTS ABOUT THE COUNTRY
THE AMEER AND THE PEOPLE
WITI-I A MAP O F TI-IE COUNTRY
(SHOWING ROUTES OF ADVANCE AND PASSlS)
PROM THE CASPIbN BEA TO THE IBDUS
AND PROM THE ILUBBIAN LINES BEYOND THE OXUB
TO TIIIQ PERSIdN GULP.
PI-IIL ROBINSON
%tltriYott :
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEAIZLE, & IiIVINGTON,
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CROWN DUILDINGIB, 188, PLZET BTRXET,
1678.
[All vighla ~eservcd.] 1
NOTE.
A P ~
INp refacing a compilation of this kind, it is hardly
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necessary to say that the compiler has gladly utilized
in his work all the material he could find to his
b hand that was at once autlzoritative and well written T~
i -whether in the columns of the Press or in books. M'
P The oilly authors qnoted are acknovlcdged masters of
of the subject-Rawlinson, Valnbery, Bellem, Elphin- L4f,
stone, Ferrier, and Sch~~ylerT. he nlap lllny be safely an
accepted as correct, nlld nll clistances accurately cal- be
culated from the scale given. It combines the latest st
tb
clata of the Indian Frontier Survey publications aail
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of the most recent mails of Central Asia.
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P. R'.
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C A B U L ; '
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AFGHANISTAN.
APART from its present political aspect the king-
~ilzd,i t is harclly
doll1 of the b e e r of Cabul, Sheye Ali Khan, is
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g'aclly lyotiliZed f~dlo f interest for the stucleut as the theatre of
to Arab conquest and Islamite growth, the scam of
'Iis
Tartsr invaaion and havoc, a Terg hotbed of
ess Or in ~00ks. Mohammedan bigotry and fanaticism, tllc ityeun
fledgecl mastars of Shis and Souni hostility, the battle-field of
BclIew, Elpliiu- Bfghans and Persians, the scene of British conquests
I
I
p nlny be safely and disasters ; and as if nature had designed it to I
accurately cal- be the object of the world's attention, Afghanistaa
H
lines tllo latest stands uplifted from the great plains of Inclin and
lblications the Khanates upon the shoulders of the great
!is. mountain ranges that bound it on the north-east and
east. The mountains of the Hindu KCsh Cower up
P. 33.
on its eastern frontier as a landlvnrlr to all Bsin,
and point out to every invader tlie nrny to India.
From the great range irregular spws diverge in
every direction, and cover Afgllanistm with a net-
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.Pronounced as ICarrbnl" (not ICnbool), nlld AfgLh1-Y-st2io.
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work of mountain chains. Between them lie valleys
of suipvsing fertility, ancl watered by pereni~ial
streams. Here every cncmy of Inclia has rccruitecl
his forccs, ancl more than once the hardy moun-
taineers have themsclves poured through the passes
of thc Snleimiin range that separates Afghanistan
from India, to ravage the territories of the infidels of
Hindustan. Known to the world generally by the
name of Afghallistan, or country of the Afghans, it
I is not so designated by the Afghans themselves, al-
thongh the name is not nnknown to them. By the
"
Afghans their country is nsnally called Wilayat
cc "
(hence the term " Wilayati," often applied to its
peo~leb y the natives of Hindustan) or native
country. It is also distinguished by two appella-
tions, inclncljng different portions of territory, vie. :
IIab~d,"o r Kiibnlist%n,'' which includes all that
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mountainons clistrict nol-th of Gliuzni ancl the 8afed2
Icoh, as far as the Hindti Kdsh, limited towards the
vest by the Huzarah country (the ancient Paropa-
misns), ancl eastward by the Abba-Sin, or Father of
('
Ri~ers,t'h~e Inclns ; ancl ICllorZs~an,"o r Xzbu-
c( rc
listiin," which includes all that extensive track of
country, Alpinc in its Eastern limits, ancl table-land
or desert in its vestern extent, which stretches
~~rouounceacsl S ufaid.