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2 A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR INTRODUCTION I. A HAZARA VILLAGE II. FORECASTS III. GATHERING CLOUDS IV. THE RULERS OF THE COUNCIL V. PREPARATIONS FOR A JOURNEY VI. CUCKOOS AND HEDGE SPARROWS VII. A DIPLOMATIST AT WORK VIII. THE CLOUDS DARKEN IX. A FATHER’S DECISION X. A MOCK ENGAGEMENT XI. THWARTED! XII. THE RETURN HOME XIII. A TRAITOR XIV. BONDAGE XV. A WARNING DREAM XVI. “A PRISONER!” XVII. SELECTED XVIII.AN AFGHAN “GARDEN HOUSE” XIX. AN INMATE OF AN AFGHAN HAREM XX. SCENES IN A HAREM XXI. A LADY’S TOILET XXII. “A SLAVE” XXIII.GUL BEGUM’S MASTER XXIV. RIVALS XXV. WOO’D NOT WON XXVI.A PATIENT WIFE XXVII. A MOURNER XXVIII. OVERTAXED XXIX. A KABUL TOWN OF SUN AND DUST XXX. VISITORS XXXI.EVIL TIDINGS XXXII.WITH THE TIDE XXXIII.“REJECTED” XXXIV.A SPY XXXV.THE PLOT XXXVI. FACING HIS ACCUSERS XXXVII. A RAT IN A HOLE XXXVIII. WANTED AT LAST XXXIX. A PILGRIMAGE XL.FREE, FREE, AT LAST!
3 A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR INTRODUCTION FRIENDS (one’s friends are ever indulgent) so constantly tell me how interesting the y think my Afghan experiences, and ask me why I have never turned any of m y piles of manuscript into a book, that I have tried to do so again and again, but always without success; I have found the task be yond me. To explain ever ything would be to tell too much, to get down to the dregs and stir up a sediment that is perhaps better left to settle. To half explain would lead to misconstruction, and for this reason: so many of my greatest difficulties in Kabul, and therefore the most interesting incidents in my life there, arose from sources not Afghan in origin. An autobiography of my sojourn in the capital of Afghanistan would therefore necessarily entail many explanations that for ver y obvious reasons it is better not to enter into. They are best forgotten. To get over this difficult y I have written A Vizier’s Daughter, ever y character in which is drawn from a model, and should, therefore, as far as it goes, give an accurate description of one phase, at any rate, of Afghan life. I lay no claim to originalit y, either as to plot or setting except as regards the last two or three chapters, and even in them there is more truth than meets the e ye. I write of what I saw and heard, and of person that I knew as intimately as one can ever know a people so far removed from us in thought and education. Gul begum told me much, the Hakim a good deal, but far more is what actually passed before my own eyes. I have, in fact, transposed some incidents, and have drawn pictures of events which took place years before I went to Kabul, from scenes that occurred while I was there. As far as I have touched on Abdur Rahman himself, I have tried to sketch him truly; but during a man’s lifetime it is almost impossible to do so fully enough to make an exact picture. I have been less cautious in dealing with his Chief Secretar y. Those who have known him since he left Kabul will doubtless think I have been unduly severe. I have certainly not flattered him. I have tried to draw him as he was then, not as he is now after a period of repose, surrounded with the luxury of the most refined and cultured intellects in the world. I have tried to picture him first as the self-satisfied Court favourite, flattered and sought after by every one; then as the overworked official, intrigued against, bunted and accused of ever y conceivable and inconceivable crime, b y enemies too unscrupulous and too numerous not to be formidable. Let those who have never been in such a country and in such circumstances be lenient. He is not always lenient to himself. On showing him the manuscript of this volume, which I would not have published without his permissio n, his only comment was: “I think it is very like what I was.” I do not exaggerate when I say he did, after a
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