Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier / A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches

A physician recounts sixteen years of close contact with frontier tribes, combining travel narrative, case histories, and ethnographic observation. He documents everyday customs, religious practices, shrines and grave rites, folk remedies, and local dispute procedures such as jirgahs, alongside vivid incidents of hospitality, blood-feud culture, and village life. Medical work and itinerant missions recur as a theme, showing how healing and practical service opened trust, mediated cultural friction, and affected responses to outside authority. Interwoven are reflections on frontier politics, the role of intermediaries, and the practical challenges of providing care across a contested border.