~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 Khushalgarh--Thal branch of N.W. Railway. ~Thandiani~ (~Hazara~), 34.1 N.--73.2 E. Small hill station in Galis sixteen miles N.E. of Abbottabad. Elevation about 8800 feet. A beautifully situated place chiefly resorted to by residents of Abbottabad and Missionaries. (_b_) _Agencies and Independent Territory._ ~Ali Masjid~ (~Khaibar~), 34.2 N.--71.5 E. Village and fort in Khaibar, 10-1/4 miles from Jamrud. Elevation 2433 feet. ~Ambela~ (~Indep. Territory~), 34.2 N.--72.4 E. Pass in Buner, which gave its name to the Ambela campaign of 1863 (page 191). ~Chakdarra~ (~Dir~, ~Swat~, and ~Chitral~), 34.4 N.--72.8 E. Military post to N.E. of Malakand Pass on south bank of Swat River. ~Chitral~, 35.5 N.--71.5 E. A group of villages forming capital of Chitral State. There is a small _bazar_.