{"book":"adl1197","page":144,"text":"bound the wound and bandaged the wounded man's leg and\nwas most kind to him. On the way where-ever the hostages had\nto cross a stream, he was most anxious that they should cross\nwith safety. According to the writing of the English writers\nthemselves, he used to play, sitting on the earth, with the English\nchildren. He treated the women hostages with great kindness\nand courtesy. Also with the officers his treatment was of utmost\ncourtesy and consideration. A letter which had been written\nregarding the restitution of a daughter of one Anderson is being\nreproduced here. This letter was in relation to that very man\nAnderson who was taken as one of the hostages at Kabul, and which\nhad been reproduced in one of the numbers of Aryana Magazine\nand in other publications. The text is as follows:\n\n\"...... With the usual titles to the Representative......\n\nRegarding the daughter of Anderson, who had fallen into the\nhands of the honourable Mohamed Omar Khan son of the honourable\nMir Ahmed Khan; and in consequence her relatives are greatly\ndistressed on her account. As written before, it is now being repeated\nthat it is most imperative that the daughter of Anderson accompanied\nby trust worthy men should be sent here, which is as it should be, ot\nherwise it shall be an act of deep omission. You, with the Grace of God\nare wise and of much discernment, so that all endeavours be made to\nrecover this daughter of Anderson and to have her sent with utmost\ncomfort and despatch. News of that region may also be sent,\nbut this matter of Anderson's daughter must be attended to\nwithout delay, and no disrigard should be allowed about it......\nas the matter is an imperative one. May your days be full of\nsuccess with the help and command of the Ever Lasting God\".\n\nISTALIF IN THE LEAPING FIRE.\nARTICLE: THIRTY FOURTH\n\nThe warriors of Kohistan and Kohdaman had taken a cons\npicous share in the battles of the First Afghan War, which burst\nupon us in the month of November 1841. A. D. at Kabul and at\nCharikar, and the part played by those gallant fighting men can","chars":2062,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00144.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/144","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/144","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1197/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1197_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."}}