: Under the absolute Amir by Martin Frank A - 'Abd al-Rahman Khan Amir of Afghanistan -1901; Afghanistan History; Kabul (Afghanistan)

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Order of march--Soldiers and guards--Method of carrying goods by pack animals--Description of camps--Marches--Welcome given to Sirdar Nasrullah at villages and cities--Description of country passed through--Kandahar--Amir and the moullah who took refuge in the Kandahar Sanctuary 1

The Mihman khana or Guest-house--Description of hamams --Description of people met with on roads and streets--Amir Abdur Rahman--Description of palace and audience chamber, and his reception of me--Situation of Kabul and description of country around--Kabul city, its bazars, streets, and filth--Water-supply and drainage systems--Sanitary arrangements--Pariah dogs and crows scavenging city 33

How streets are governed--City magistrate--Robberies and murders--Bazar shops--Style of palaces and better-class houses--Climate of Kabul 47

Belief in the supernatural--Dress of men--Complexion--Character of people--Description of various tribes--Languages and schools--Feuds between families--How holidays are spent by the people--Singing and musical instruments--Games and amusements 58

Superstitions, fairies, and devils--A curious legend--Astrologers--Children singing prayers on roofs to avert calamity--Different foods in use--Smoking and tobacco--The Amir's chief physician--Snuff--Method of keeping warm in winter--How time is kept--Weddings of different classes--Funerals 78

Form of government--Abuse of authority--Amir's food and drinking water and taster--Soldiers and horses always ready for flight--Amir's habits--Amir's amusements, attendants, etc.--Amir's feelings towards England--Amir's views on Afridi rising and Boer War--Amir's stratagem 98

Amir's sons and his treatment of them--Princes and their duties and durbars--Food supplied by Government to members of royal family--How officials are paid--Civil and Military titles--Court life and officials--Law courts--Amir's lingering illness, death, and burial--Rumours of rising--Fears of populace--Burial of household treasures--Plots to get body--Coronation of Amir Habibullah--New Amir's promises of Reform--Amusements 120

Kotwal and Kotwali --Policemen as thieves--Description of prisons--Description of how prisoners are treated and their irons--The old well in Bala Hisar--The spy system--Cutting a man's throat--False reporting--Fanah tortures 142

Amir's iron rule--Hanging by hair and skinning alive--Beating to death with sticks--Cutting men in pieces--Throwing down mountain-side--Starving to death in cages--Boiling woman to soup and man drinking it before execution--Punishment by exposure and starvation--Scaffold scenes--Burying alive--Throwing into soap boilers--Cutting off hands--Blinding--Tying to bent trees and disrupting--Blowing from guns--Hanging, etc. 157

Life in Kabul--Houses and gardens--Guards and danger from "Ghazis"-- Allowances given wives--Servants and swindling 173

Lawlessness--Food: Raising cattle, sheep, fowls, etc.--Presents from princes and others--Famines in Kabul--Cholera--Moullah's pilgrimage and preaching--Use of roofs of houses--Work and working hours--Amusements--Hindu dealers and old curios--Festival visits to Amir and princes--Europeans tried by jury--Letters, cost of postage--Interpreters 192

Clothing--Reviews--Drill--Uniforms of Amir's bodyguard--Arms--Pay--Medals--Length of service--Substitutes--Barracks--Mode of life--Gambling among soldiers--Different tribes forming regiments--Thief tribe and regiment--Officers and promotion--Bands--Afghan anecdotes of incidents during war, 1879-81--Afghan army as a fighting machine--Condition of country for warfare--Illustration of one side of Afghan character 213

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