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to catch a glimpse of the famous Afghan Commander-in-Chief on whom alone, it was whispered, rested the fate of the country. They would put to him various questions on the topic and his answers were always in the strain shown in the above extracts. Peshawar.—The Marshal and his brothers reached Peshawar on the 19th February. A large number of people and many influential tribal chiefs had come to meet him at the railway station. During his short stay at Peshawar, he knew no rest, engrossed as he مشغول. مجذوب was in a minute study of the problems lying ahead. Ali Ahmad Jan and some other Afghans who were at this time in Peshawar came to see him and supplied him with the information they possessed and the local chiefs insisted that he should go to Kandahar and help the ex-King, being, strangely enough unaware, even then of the general hatred of the Afghans for Amanullah Khan. In their blind and over-zealous sympathy for a Muslim State, they wanted to force upon the people a king who had been tried for several years and found wanting. Marshal Nadir Khan, who knew his fellow-countrymen 83