~Hazara~ is a typical montane and submontane district with a copious rainfall and a good climate. It has every kind of cultivation from narrow terraced _kalsi_ fields built laboriously up steep mountain slopes to very rich lands watered by canal cuts from the Dor or Haro. Hazara is divided into three _tahsils_, Haripur, Abbottabad, and Mansehra. Between a fourth and a fifth of this area is culturable and cultivated. In this crowded district the words are synonymous. The above figure does not include the 204 square miles of Feudal Tanawal. The rainfall is copious and the crops generally speaking secure. The principal are maize 42 and wheat 25 p.c. Hazara was part of the territory made over to Raja Gulab Singh in 1846, but he handed it back in exchange for some districts near Jammu. The maintenance of British authority in Hazara in face of great odds by the Deputy Commissioner, Captain James Abbott, during the Second Sikh War is a bright page in Panjab history, honourable alike to himself and his faithful local allies. The population is as mixed as the soils. Pathans are numerous, but they are split up into small tribes. The Swatis of Mansehra are the most important section. After Pathans Gujars and Awans are the chief tribes. The Gakkhars, though few in number, hold much land and a dominant position in the Khanpur tract on the Rawalpindi border. The Deputy Commissioner is also responsible for our relations with 98,000 trans-border tribesmen. The district is a wedge interposed between Kashmir on the east and Peshawar and the tribal territory north of Peshawar on the west. The Indus becomes the border about eight miles to the north of Amb, and the district consists mainly of the areas drained by its tributaries the Unhar, Siran, Dor, and Haro. On the eastern side the Jhelam is the boundary with Kashmir from Kohala to a point below Domel, where the Kunhar meets it. Thence the Kunhar is the boundary to near Garhi Habibullah. To the south of Garhi the watershed of the Kunhar and Jhelam is close to these rivers and the country is very rough and poor. West of Garhi it is represented by the chain which separates the Kunhar and Siran Valleys and ends on the frontier at Musa ka Musalla (13,378 feet). This chain includes one peak over 17,000 feet, Mali ka Parvat, which is the highest in the district. The Kunhar rises at the top of the Kagan Glen, where it has a course of about 100 miles to Balakot. Here the glen ends, for the fall between Balakot and Garhi Habibullah is comparatively small. There is a good mule road from Garhi Habibullah to the Babusar Pass at the top of the Kagan Glen, and beyond it to Chilas. There are rest-houses, some very small, at each stage from Balakot to Chilas. The Kagan is a beautiful mountain glen. At places the narrow road looks sheer down on the river hundreds of feet below, rushing through a narrow gorge with the logs from the _deodar_ forests tossing on the surface, and the sensation, it must be confessed, is not