{"book":"adl0973","page":62,"text":"about. The few misguided rebels who had\nbeen foolish enough to attack the city, they\nsaid, would soon have cause to regret their\nfolly. But the King had by now fully realized\nthe unwisdom of his past actions and was\nsorry for having dismissed those straight-\nforward and trustworthy officers who alone\ncould have been relied upon in his hour of\nneed. He sent messages of distress to all\nparts of the country, calling for levies.\nPeople in large numbers hurried to the\ncapital in the hope of receiving ample\nrewards in case of success and a goodly share\nof plunder in case of defeat and collapse of\nthe Government. The city was choked with\nthese unwelcome guests from different clans,\nand the citizens were greatly harassed.\n\nThe royal magazines were thrown open;\narms and ammunition were freely distributed\namong the new-comers and those who offered\ntheir services. Everybody who could approach\nthe government officers was favoured with\na rifle and a few rounds of cartridges.\nWhen the news of this lavish and indiscrimi-\nnate distribution of arms and ammunition\nspread far and wide, large numbers of people\nflocked to the city. Taking advantage of this\n\n33\n\nC","chars":1160,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00062.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/62","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/62","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."}}