Exports, 239 F Fairies, 80 Fakirs, 271, 273 False reporting, 153 Famine of 1903, 197 “Fanah” (wedge) torture, 153-155, 248 Fanatics (ghazis), 181 Fat men, 89 Fatehabad, 311 Festivals, 279-281 _Firman_, 185 Fish in Kabul river, 175 Fishing in rivers, method of, 17 Fleischer family, 130 Fleischer, Mr., murdered, 175 Fleischer, Mrs., her German nurse, 185 Flour, price of, 194 Food, 87-89, 194-195 Lawful and unlawful, 284 Fowls, duck, geese, etc., raising, 194 Freight-carrying, 242 Fruit, dried, 239 Fuel in Government workshops, 230, 234, 263, 264 Funerals, 96-97 G Games, 76 Gandamak, 311 Geology of country, 254 _seq._ Ghazni, 23, 29; described, 24 Ghulam Hyder, 289 Girdi Kutch, 316 Girls become “purdah” about eight, 77 Gold, 260 Gold mine, an abandoned, 20 Government, 98, 101 Government stores, 102 Governors of Kandahar, 13 Grapes, 239 Gravestones, 96-97 Guards given to European servants of Government, 181 Gulistan serai, Queen Sultana’s palace, 36, 52, 128 H Habibullah Khan, Amir, 30, 31, 120 Acknowledged Amir, 127 Amusements, 139-141 Attendants, 109 Attitude towards fakirs, 273 Attitude towards moullahs, 270 Characteristics, 141, 207 Conduct on Abdur Rahman’s death, 127 _seq._, 294 Coronation, 132-134 Desires seaboard, 306 Disallowed petitions, 138 Forms a parliament, 124 In Arak, 137, 294 Interest in machinery, 230 Nominal head of army, 121 Position difficult, 298 Precautions regarding his food and drink, 104 Promises of reform, 137 Remains in Arak during cholera epidemic, 201 Speech at coronation, 133-134 Story of his cruelty, 161 Haddah moullah, 110-112 Hafiz, 273 Haj, pilgrimages to Mecca, 281 Hamams (Turkish baths) described, 34 Hamilton, Lieutenant, 225 Hazaras, 63 Coolies, 186 Mulberry diet, 87 Servants, 190 Heat during summer months, 320 Hindeki, summer palace at, 52 Amir Habibullah at, 297 Hindu dealers and curios, 206 Money-lenders in Kabul, 251 Hindustani servants and swindling, 187 _seq._ Holidays, how spent, 69 Horse raising, 240 Houses of Kabul described, 50 I Ignorance of numbers and telling the time, 92 Imports, 244 Insurrection expected on death of Abdur Rahman, 128, 131, 135, 295 Interpreters, 211 Irrigation, 13, 42, 241 J Jagdalak, 311 Jelalabad, 311— Described, 315, 317 District, tropical fruits in, 239 Governor of, 112 To Khyber, country between, 320 To Peshawar, five days’ journey, 316 Jidrani knife-dancers, 72 Jihad (religious war), 112, 203, 226, 267, 269, 299 “Jubah,” account of, 73 _seq._ Jumrood fort, 316 K Kabob, 88, 103