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Title: Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier
A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the
Natives of the Indian Marches

Author: T. L. Pennell

Release Date: May 3, 2010 [EBook #32231]

Language: English

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Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier

A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse
with the Natives of the Indian Marches

By

T. L. Pennell, M.D., B.Sc., F.R.C.S.

With an introduction by

Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G.

And with 37 Illustrations & 2 Maps

Second Edition

London
Seeley & Co. Limited
38 Great Russell Street
1909

TO
MY MOTHER,
TO THE
INSPIRATION OF WHOSE LIFE AND TEACHING
I OWE MORE THAN
I CAN REALIZE OR RECORD

INTRODUCTION

This book is a valuable record of sixteen years' good work by an
officer--a medical missionary--in charge of a medical mission station
at Bannu, on the North-West Frontier of India.

Although many accounts have been written descriptive of the wild
tribes on this border, there was still plenty of room for Dr. Pennell's
modestly-related narrative. Previous writers--e.g., Paget and Mason,
Holdich, Oliver, Warburton, Elsmie, and many others--have dealt
with the expeditions that have taken place from time to time against
the turbulent occupants of the trans-Indus mountains, and with the
military problems and possibilities of the difficult regi