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STERN, SAVAGE REALISM.

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is low; but as the position of fords changes from year to year, fording is extremely dangerous without the assistance of a local guide.

with Persin. Since then we have had three wars with the Afghans, the net gain from them being en- tirely incommensurate with the expenditure of life and money. Towards the south-west of

Medley of Tribes. Kandahar lies the Registan, a de- ! And what of the people who in. solate stretch of sandhills which habit this country of extremes? are almost impassable owing to Barely 7,000,000 in number, they The visit of the Amir of the lack of water. In such desert are divided into about thirty dif this country tracts there are great extremes, ferent tribes, less than half of Afghanistan to affords to teachers of geography of heat and cold During winter which are of pure Afghan stock. Afghan tribes. Are the an unrivalled opportunity for stir- blizzards frequently carry off man The ring interests in that little-known and mules. From May to Septem- Durants, Saiyids, Ghilzais, and country. Recent descriptions, in ber a scorching wind blows with Pathans; while the non-Afghan the Press, of the Amir and his unabated violence at a speed of tribes are the Tajika, Uzbaks, euite will have attracted the at- between thirty and seventy miles Jamshedia, Firozkohis, Taimanis, Zohris, tention of keen boys and girls, an hour. In many parts sand- Mughals, Kipchaks,

Kizilbashes; Kafire. particularly of those who have laden winds made life almost un-Hazaras, read about Lord Roberts' march endurable for a European. It is Safis, Barbare, Baluchis, etc. The to Kandahar or Eldred Pot- impossible to eat without swallow-foreign races are Indians, Arabs, tinger's heroic defence of Herat, ing sand, one's eyes and mouth Turkomans, Kirkhiz, and Jews. And above all, what boy has not are practically sealed up during The Kizilbashes and Hazaras are had his imagination touched by the night, while tarantulae and particularly friendly towards us.

into

The distinctive dress of the the succession of names in the be- other abominationa creep ginning of "Sohrab and Rustum"? sleeping bags and make night yet true Afghan races is a turban wound round a skull cap, loose "The Tartars of the Oxua, the more horrible.

cottor garments, with the shirt King's guard, First, with black sheep-skin caps and with long spears; Large men, large steeds; who

from Bokhara come And Khiva, and ferment the

milk of mares.

Next, the more temperate

Toorkmuns of the south, The Tukas, and the lances of

Salore, And those from Attruck and

the Caspian sands; Light men, and on light steeds,

who only drink The acrid milk of camels, and

their wells.

Bitter Cold and Blazing Heat. As might be supposed in a coun-hanging down outside very wide try of such striking contrasts, trouser. The Durania, however, every kind of climate is to be sometin.es wear brown cloth coats found. Snow lies in Kabul from over the hanging shirt, and December to the beginning of breeches, with puttees and boots. March. The cold is intenso, the The western Hazaras wear a small thermometer sometimes register- conical head-dress of bright co- ing as many as 54 degrees of loured chintz, lined with fur or frost. The people wear posteena | sheep-skin, which forms a fringe (sheep-skin coats with the fleece round the edge, Hindu males are inside) to protect themselves compelled to wear yellow turbans; The and Hindu females yellow cloaks. from the piercing winds. summer climate of Kabul is semi- (It might be wondered why a tropical. At Kandahar the tem-race like the Arghans allows perature rises to 115 degrees or Hindus into the country at all.. more in the middle of July, Dur- They find them necessary for car- And then a swarm of wandering the last war with Afghanis-rying on the ordinary commerce

ing horse, who came

tan (in 1919), the temperature in of the bazaar like the buying and From far, and a more doubtful our E. P. tents at Loe Dakka rose selling of grain and banking),

service owned

to 125 degrees. In the distance In truth, dress varies tremendous- we could see snow-clad moun- ly. I have seen tribesmen dressed tains! This prospect, however, in garments which conveyed the was not altogether a torture of suggestion that they had been Tantalus for I used to get two made up from tailors' and drapers donkey-loads of frozen snow every sample booke. Possibly they had

The Tartars of Ferghana, from

the banks

Of the Jaxartes, men

scanty beards

with

And close-set skull-caps; and

those wilder hordes Who roam over Kipchak and

the northern waste, Kalmuks and unkempt zaks, tribes who stray Nearest the Police, and wander-

ing Kirkhizzes, Who come on shaggy ponies

from Pamir."

day.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.),

3

16

7 13

31

12.

113

14

15

16

17

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70

21

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124

27

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37

135 34

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142

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147

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL 1-Make a loan B-Crush 7-Clanohed hand 11-Compose 13-Head of a

newspaper 16-1100 (Roman) 16-8atior 18-Behold 10-Exclamation of

disgust 27-Flat fish

22-Allow 23-Ship timber: (pl) 25-Paoutier turn of

expression -27-Carousal

28-Author of "Cyrano de Bergero" 30-Pronoun #1-Flowed

32-Division of time -

(abbr) 33-Furnished with

Whorte

38-Hurl

39-Implant

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 30-Author of "Home,

Sweet Home" 40-Period of time 41-Essential 43--Obtain

i 48-Latin word for

46-Bravory 46-8windia

49-Vala B1-Almost

88-Egyptian goddess 54-Dowry

55-Short plece of

connective pipe (pl.)

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VERTICAL 1-Part of body 2-Halt on the march S-No date (abbr) 4-Obscure B-Buchan quick pulla 6-Casual remark 7-Trea

-Pronoun

--Barlows

{10-Jogging pace

VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-Flavor 14-Achlovemanta 17-N. central State

(abbr) 20-Accord

| 22-Charging a gun

24-Those who perceive

by slight |28-European country

27-To scatter good

| 25-Fundamental (abbr.)

[20-Thrust

31-Retreated 34-A broak 35-Even 36-Untrus

$7-Pointer of compass [99–Coloring pigment

40-French word for

challenge 42-Preposition |44-Playthings

46-Pronoun 47-Entangle 50-Symbol for

titanium"

|52-Muslen! note SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.

(Tre solution of the above cross-word pizzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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I buried this under the for a thieving Afghan does not floor of the tent and so could re- leave much behind him! Imme duce bottles of water to a delici-, diately one thought of Joseph and Kuzous coolness. I remember, too, his coat of many.colours. Curi- baskets of fruit which used to oualy enough the Afghans claim come in with satisfying regular- descent from King Saul; the ity, while one was able to buy con-Eusafzai Pathans, descent from siderable quantities of fresh Joseph! I am ready to accept any vegetables and water melons feasible theory that these people Afghanistan is not a country from a village on the other side of are the lost tribe of Israel. of romance, but one of stern, even the Kabul. In fact a good deal of It is always rather difficult to savage, realism. Hemmed in to fruit is sent down to Indi. in the know accurately what is going on the north by Bokhara and Rus- summer time, sometimes in carts inside Afghanistan, but there is So. that reason to believe that attempts sian Turkestan, to the south by drawn by elephants. Baluchistan, to the east by the Afghanistan is not entirely bar-are being made to develop various Carpets have been North West Frontier Provinces of ren of those delicacies which one industries. India, and to the west by Khora-requires most in such a country, made from time immemorial. san, it contains within its area (as Though the climate runs to ex-Other employments are agricul- grazing, fruit-growing, large as that of Germany, Bel-tremes Europeans find it quite ture,

charcoal-burning, manufacture of gium, Holland, and Denmark) healthy in most parts.

The commonest trees are pine, weapons, fighting and stealing. I allowed to fall into the hands of every possible variety of topo- graphical feature from waterless oak, birch, and walnut; the prin- do not know what minerals there his murderer shortly after leaving plain to great mountain. The cipal crops are wheat (forming are, but imagine it would be ex his host's threshold. Their cruel- north-east shoulders up the Roof the staple food of the people), tremely difficult to get the true ty to human beings and animals of the World with peaks of 25,000 barley, rice, maize, tobacco, sugar- Afghans to settle down to any is almost incredible. feet and more. The principal cane, and cotton. Of course it is thing like regular employment not care, however, to set out the full account of their villainies at mountain range of Afghanistan is only possible to grow much in the either in mine or in factory.

Kabul, the Capital, has a popu- the Hindu Kush, which, starting well-watered valleys. Nearly

gross ignorance in anyone who in the North-east from the four-fifths of the whole country lation considerably less than this time, but it would reveal Pamirs, runs south-west and be-is rocky, mountainous, and unpro- 200,000. There are over thirty thought that the average Afghan comes the Koh-i-Baba just west ductive. Among the wild animals streets in the city. The Amir's is even moderately civilised. Of fortified palace, or Arg, as it is late years one has noted welcome of Kabul (accent on the first are the tiger (possibly rare), syllable), and finally branches bears, leopards, wolves, jackals, called locally, is situated in wood-signs (the Amir's visit to Europe The Arg is sur is one) of an interest in the out- into the three ranges, Band-i- and hyenas. As Afghanistan is a ed grounds.

Afghanistan will Turkistan, Band-i-Baba, and country without railways (a rail-rounded by a moat sixty feet side world. Band-i-Baian. The Hari Run way now runs through the broad at the top, and has loop-gain much by such contact. But

Boy and the Bullock. river marks the western limit of Khyber Pass between Peshawar holed walls of tremendous thick- the process of welding discordant

factions into what we would call "A boy of twelve was sent to the whole Hindu Kush system, and Lande Kotal) transport of ness, composed mainly of mud. South of the Hindu Kush and commodities is done by pack The Afghan Character. a civilised nation will take a long graze his father's bullock. While he gave his attention to some west of Chitral lies Kafiristan; a animals like the camel, pony, bul- The people are intensely patrio- time.

Pashto, or Pushtu, the language childish game the bullock strayed. tumbled mass of mighty moun- lock, donkey, and mule. Possibly tic and in the past have bitterly tains, most of them capped with there are not more than a score of resented all interference from out-of the Afghan tribes, is rather into a good man's garden. Now everlasting snow.

motor cars in the country. In any side. But the strongest tie be-difficult to acquire. I have heard this good man did not care to see The six principal rivers are the case the roads are bad, and it tween otherwise loosely connect-It said that the true Pashto a bullock in his garden, so he put Oxus, Hari Rud, Farah Rud, would be a sturdy car that could ed tribes is the Mohammedan re- vocabulary does not amount to an end to the poor thing's eating Helmand, and the Kabul. Like stand the work.

ligion for which they are ready to more than 1,000 words. Certain by cutting out its tongue, One of the most interesting fight to the death. In point of ly the borrowings from Persian the sorrow-stricken lad guided It the bullock towards home it lay the mountains these rivers are infinitely varied in character. sights in Peshawar used to be the fact they know practically nothing and Arabic are considerable. Most of them, even the navigable arrival of a caravan from Afghan-about their religion, ut the would not serve any useful pur-down, refused to rise, and very Oxus, can be forded at points, istan. The camelmen brought Mullahs, (native priests) have pose to go into the nature of the soon died. All that could be saved this depending, of course, on the their wives, children, hens, and tremendous powers over them; language, but one or two phrases now was the bullock's skin which time of the year. The Oxus, for all their household gear with and nothing is likely to bring the from it may not be without in the boy stripped off, not without Burdened by the On meeting, Afghans difficulty. most of example, which flows along the them,

which for tribesmen together more readily terest. northern frontier of Afghanistan, Afghans consider wives as chat-than the preaching of a Jehad or greet one another with "Stirayweight he could not walk very averages at places 800 yards tele-the camele had to carry in holy war. Attack on religion ma shay"! (May you never grow quickly, and darkness overtook wide and 30 feet deep in summer, addition to the large bales of car- from without or foreign aggres- tired,; and then proceed to en-him. The boy climbed a tree, and when snow is melting. Between pets and other products of sion of any kind, however, is not quire: "Takrah yay (Are you dragging the skin up after him, THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO.Khash and Chakansur, except in Afghanistan and the countries be- a necessary preliminary to war-active?); "Kha jor yay?" (Are-esolved to spend the night there. flood time, the Khash Rud is dry, yond. Even the camels' necks fare in Afghanistan. Fighting you quite well?); "Da kor hal A little after midnight he heard and water can only be obtained by were exploited as conveniencen goes on fairly continuously be kha de?" (is the state of your voices, and three men came up and digging in the river bed. Below for suspending articles like hurri-tween families and between clans house good?). On parting they sat down under the tree. Evid- as a matter of ordinary routine. say: "Whar ma shay" (Mayently they had been on a raiding its junction with the Panishir cane-lanterns. and Laghman rivers (near Jalala- Alexander the Great was the All the men carry weapons, even you not become poor); "Pa Mak-expedition for they brought much bad) the Kabul is nearly a mile first conqueror of Afghanistan. boys have rifles. Afghanistan is kha da kha"! (May good be on gold and other precious things your face). Kindly words in from the folds of their garments, broad. The rivers are but poorly After him came the Parthians, a country where might is right.

and placed the spoil on, the 3a, Wyndham Street. Tel. C. 22 bridged, but the Afghans are ex-Persians, Arabs, and Tartars. In The Afghan character is a deedy

pert at crossing rivers with 604 Baber captured Kabul and strange blend of virtue and vice. I would be doing the people an ground. They had begun to quar- masaks (inflated skins). They founded the Mogul dynasty in He is proud, brave, and ready to injustice if I forgot to refer to rel over the amount which each join twelve skins to make a raft India. In 1738 the country was die in obedience to his peculiar their sense of humour. This may should receive when the boy, 25, Wing Wo St. Tel. C. 1116, capable of floating fourteen men, conquered by the Persians under code of honour. His hospitality be done conveniently by translat either from fright or design, let Metal Merchants and Shio or five mules. Fords for the most Nalir Shah, Our official relations is provarbial. And yet the ing a story which was told to me fall the dripping skin on their part are only practicable during with Afghanistan began in 1809, Afghans are faithless, and trea-by an old man in a frontier vill-heads. They fled in terror and

did not return. · · the cold weather, when the river when Napoleon was intriguing cherous; and even a guest may be age.

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