Military Text-Books FROM THE BLACK MOUNTAIN TO WAZIRISTAN [Illustration] MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO FROM THE BLACK MOUNTAIN TO WAZIRISTAN BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE BORDER COUNTRIES AND THE MORE TURBULENT OF THE TRIBES CONTROLLED BY THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, AND OF OUR MILITARY RELATIONS WITH THEM IN THE PAST BY COLONEL H. C. WYLLY, C.B. AUTHOR OF ‘THE CAMPAIGN OF MAGENTA AND SOLFERINO,’ ‘THE MILITARY MEMOIRS OF LIEUT.-GEN. SIR JOSEPH THACKWELL, G.C.B., K.H.’ WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LIEUT.-GEN, SIR HORACE L. SMITH DORRIEN K.C.B., D.S.O., A.D.C. GEN. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1912 _COPYRIGHT_ TO E. M. W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE This book is the outcome of my own experience of the want of something of the kind in the early autumn of 1897, when the Second Battalion of my old Corps, the Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, then serving at Bareilly, was ordered to join the Tirah Expeditionary Force. The Battalion had then been in India for nearly fifteen years, but only one or two of the officers, and none of the other ranks, had ever been west of the Indus, and few of us therefore knew anything of the wild men against whom we were to fight, or of the equally wild country in which the operations were to be conducted.