{"book":"adl0973","page":125,"text":"There was no time to lose. He resolved\nto enter his native land, to save his brethren\nfrom the cruel grip of the brigand chief.\nHe knew he had neither men nor money,\nnor good health. The enemy was in possession\nof the capital and the public treasury; and\nhad a formidable standing army well armed\nand well equipped. He also knew that any\naction on his part would lead the cruel and\nrelentless autocrat خود مطلق to arrest the remaining\nmembers of his family then in Kabul, and\nput them to indescribable وصف ناپذیر tortures. But\nnothing could deter him from his purpose. He\nimmediately despatched General Shah\nMahmud Khan with necessary instructions to\nJaji, and himself with Sardar Shah Wali Khan\nleft for Khost.\n\nKhost.—The Marshal and his brother\naccompanied by Sayed Sharif Khan and\nNawab Khan reached Khost on the 9th March.\nA large number of tribal chiefs and Govern-\nment officials had come out to meet their\nrenowned Commander-in-Chief on the Afghan\nborder. Noor Mohammad Khan's regiment\npaid its respect with a salute of 31 guns.\nMilitary bands, national dances and other\n\n88","chars":1082,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00125.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/125","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/125","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_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."}}