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A bit repetitive and in the nature of a brief biography listing his travels.
The descriptions of Punjab are delightful, and the manner of travel, paying tolls and crossing rivers is interesting

Waaaay too much about the difficulties and successes of converting youths to Christianity. However, to do so among villages and towns of Afghanistan one imagines the good doctor must have had a death wish.

Not so. His medical missionary work succeeded in great part because of his own upstanding character and the desperate need in those remote parts for medical care.

An easy read with short anecdotes illustrating the peculiar contradictions of the tribes in pre modern Afghanistan and what is now modern Pakistan

Good research material from a medical missionary, a physician who lived in the north west frontier and preached to convert Muslims to Christianity.

Very thoughtful, well written account of war torn Afghan frontier in 1909. What seems like a radical problem today in that region is exactly spelled out over 100 years ago when Muslim extremist sought to win a spot in paradise by sacrificing themselves to kill an infidel.