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Major H. A. F. Mag-rath on the 
to some act of violence towards us, and be tbe 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 te 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 
Text-fig. 4. 
Fort Lockhart, 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 we arrived in Parachinar 
from Peiwar news was brought in by a native officer of the 
