{"book":"adl0973","page":143,"text":"prestige of the country to a great extent.\nSuch was the effect of this speech on the\naudience that there was general lamentation\nin Khost, and the happy day of Id actually\nbecame a day of mourning.\nIn Khost not a single day passed without\nseeing a large number of the tribal men\nanswering the call of help. On the second\nday of Id a batch of 1,000 men made its\nappearance. The Marshal with his brothers\nwent out to meet them. Such was their\nenthusiasm at seeing him that they danced\nand sang for joy. Their number daily\nincreased and everybody began to hope that\nthis tribal lashkar would soon be able to\nextirpate the cruel regime. But unfortunately\nthe many difficulties, some of which we have\nalready discussed in the previous chapter,\nmade immediate action nearly impossible.\nDispute between the Wazir Refugees\nand the Southern Tribes.—It was at this\ntime that the news reached the Marshal\nthat there was imminent danger of a\nserious fight between the Wazir Refugees\nand the Southern Tribes. These Waziris,\nwhose real home was in Waziristan, had left\ntheir territory and taken refuge in the\n104","chars":1098,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00143.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/143","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/143","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."}}