[1] The commonest affections I met with were granular lids, chronic entropion, corneitis, nyctalopia, and cataract.

[2] Entropion, with nebulous and vascular cornea in an old woman of seventy.

[3] The news reached India. It was the first thing I saw in the papers when I arrived there to enter the AmÎr’s service, Sept. 1888.

[4] I was very sorry to hear recently, that Jan Mahomed Khan is no longer living: a machine gun exploded and he was killed.

[5] There is a saying in Kabul that only those of the family suffer from gout who afterwards occupy the throne; and since Prince Nasrullah, the second son, has had twinges of pain in one of his lower limbs, some have looked upon him as a probable successor to the throne!

[6] I have heard recently that the Mirza, following the example of other misguided Afghans, endeavoured to escape from the country into India. Unfortunately for him he was one of the unsuccessful ones. He was seized, brought before the AmÎr, and—Fate is now unkind to him.

[7] This man has since been executed for treason: he was smothered.