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Major H. A. F. Magrath on the 



to some act of violence towards us, and be the cause of 

 administrative complications in the valley. We were, there- 

 fore, asked to return to Parachinar, where a meeting was 

 called of the leading Maliks, on the result of which our fate 

 with respect to being allowed to continue collecting would 

 depend. Unfortunately and much to our chagrin the verdict 

 of the " Jirga " was against us, and the Political Agent 

 called on us and informed us that, owing to the popular 

 excitement, it would be quite unsafe for us to go into camp 



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l^drt Ijockliart, in winter. 



again and that we could only work in the immediate vicinity 

 of Parachinar. Our expedition thus came to an untimely 

 end, and, as there was nothing more to be done in the bird- 

 line at Parachinar, we returned to Thall, whence a few days 

 later Whitehead took his departure for England, and I to 

 places where ignorance and superstition would cease from 

 troubling. 



I may mention that soon after wc arrived in Parachinar 

 from Peiwar news was brought in by a native officer of the 



