1895.] on a Recent Journey in Afghanistan. 579 



Afghan prince to England, and by the complimentary reception which 

 I am sure will await him here, I have no doubt. Thus, by slow 

 degrees, the suspicion and antagonism that have hitherto kept the two 

 people apart will melt ; the barriers that have severed Afghanistan 

 from the world will be thrown down, and that state will pass from 

 the category of barbarian to that of civilised communities, under the 

 aegis of the power against whom it once fought with such bitter 

 intensity, but whom it will have learned, from a later and happier 

 experience, to regard as its protector and friend. 



[G. N. C] 



