told of the Zaka Kheyl tribe of Afridis, that they were once visited by a certain "pir" or holy man who reproached them with their ignorance and backwardness in not possessing any saint's shrine. The remedy was obvious. The holy man was forthwith dispatched, and a shrine built over him, at which to this day the tribe pay devotions.

what is deemed among Mahommedans the greatest reproach, that of being the "sons of burnt fathers", i.e, of unbelievers

Midway between the city and the cantonment is the jail behind, [above] whose walls rises the black cross-beam of the gallows, visible from the road. "Ghazi outrages," cases of murder of English officers by religious fanatics, though not so frequent as formerly, are by no means extinct. These "ghazis" are among young talibs (students) from the hills who have had their imagination inflamed by some mullah with visions of paradise and its houris. In 1896 a young officer was just putting his horse into the train at the station when he was stabbed in the back by a "ghazi" and killed. The man afterwards stated that it was in revenge for one of his relatives who had been killed by the English in a frontier expedition. In 1897 a clerk in the Deputy Commissioner's office was shot in broad daylight as he was driving through the main bazaar of the city by a "ghazi," who mistook him for the Deputy Commissioner himself. The murderer escaped through a thick crowd and was never captured. On the frontier executions take place quickly after conviction. Sometimes the bodies of "ghazis" have been burnt, as Muhammadans believe that no one who has not been buried with the due rites can enter Paradise. Cremation, therefore, deprives the "ghazi" of the honours of martyrdom.