172 J. Waterhouse—The Survey Operations in Afghanistan. 
Major Tanner thinks, would probably offer a good field for recruiting 
amongst a hardy race who have no sympathy with the Afghans. 
Major Tanner says that Azim Khan’s wife and children moved about 
among them, and did their household duties without any shamefacedness. 
As they came up the valley, all the women greeted the Malik with a smile, 
and conversed without restraint. The young women have very handsome 
features, and some are very pretty but much disfigured by dirt.. 
A few days after Major Tanner’s arrival in Aret, he had a bad attack 
' of fever, which he got over and, though weak, made all arrangements for 
a final advance, when he had a second and very severe attack to which he. 
nearly succumbed and which compelled him, most unfortunately, to aban- 
don his design and return to Jelalabad. 
After an appeal to Azim Khan’s ‘ friendship’, he was allowed to leave 
and was carried off between two poles to Jinjapur, about two days’ journey 
By the kindness of the Jinjapur Malik he was safely conducted by the 
Malik’s two sons and a large armed party, through a hostile country to 
the mouth of the Dar-i-nur, and eventually he reached Ahmed Khan’s Fort 
at Shewa where he was safe, though the Fort was attacked immediately 
after his arrival by an armed party they had met on the road when going 
down the Dar-i-nur. 
From Shewa he went down the Kunar river to Jelalabad on a raft. 
The untoward failure of this expedition is much to be regretted as 
Major Tanner would undoubtedly have been able to throw much light upon 
this little known country had he been able to carry out his plans. 
