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The reader also who expects to find a book on the Frontier stuffed with 'tales of wild adventure -mostly lies'-will not find them here. These,Īs a rule, can only be given, with their full effect,īy men who know nothing about the question. With Frontier tribes will be disappointed. Opinions as to the management of our relations Reader who expects to find cut-and-dried dogmatic To give it effect, and of the result attained. Pursued on the Gilgit Frontier, of the steps taken Merely to give a faithful account of the policy Moreover, suchĬriticism is generally foolish for the man on theįrontier sees but his own square on the chess-board, and can know but little of the whole game The windmills of the forward or backward policy,Īnd it is, in my old-fashioned opinion, disloyal forĪn officer still in the service to criticise his superiors,Įven should he consider that he has grounds for I have no wish to join the bands who ride out to do battle with The book contains no dissertations on Frontier policy, no criticisms or attacks on those who direct It contains no information which has not been at the disposal of the man in the street, but it has this advantage: that, having been behind the scenes, it has been possible for me to avoid including the inaccuracies of the mere looker-on. The events it describesīegan ten years and ended five years ago. It was written under adverse circumstances, in the scanty hours of leisure snatched from official work in India, and it could not, for obvious reasons, have been published while I was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India. The book is a plain and unvarnished tale of the experiences of a frontier officer in times of peace as well as in those of war. My reason for writing this book was, that as the story of the development of the Gilgit Frontier, told in my letters and diaries, was read with interest by some who saw those papers, it seemed probable that its publication might give to those who have no chance of seeing the sort of life their countrymen lead on an uncivilised frontier, a faithful idea of what such an existence means.

SOME word of explanation seems due when an unknown writer obtrudes a personal narrative on the public. FIVE YEARS' EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES IN GILGIT, HUNZA NAGAR, CHITRAL, AND THE EASTERN HINDU-KUSHīRITISH AGENT AT GILGIT, 1889-1894 MILITARY SECRETARY TO THE VICEROY OF INDIA, 1894-1899

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