{"book":"adl0970","page":52,"text":"19\n\nconfidence among his new subjects. It is to\nhis credit that he succeeded in both of these\nhigh ideals admirably. Then he turned his\nattention towards the administration of the\nnewly-acquired country. It appeared to him\nrather dangerous to trust the Persians blindly\nand to leave them in charge of all Government\noffices. He could not appoint his own men to\nstations with which they were totally unac-\nquainted. So he adopted a middle course. He\nallowed the Persians to continue in their\noffice, but nominated a supervisor from among\nhis own people in each department to look after\nthe work. By this arrangement he had the\nadvantage of experience of the one and the\nfidelity of the other. He punished those of the\nPersian officers who had turned traitors to their\nking and failed to stand by him at the time of\ndifficulty. Even those, who were in secret\ncorrespondence with him during the siege, were\nseverely punished for their treachery, while the\nchiefs who had remained loyal and faithful to\ntheir King, were kindly treated and amply\nrewarded. He appointed an Afghan of singular","chars":1085,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00052.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/52","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/52","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}