We came up on to the top of this tower, as everyone does who comes to Peshawur.

He was like you.

He was dreaming night and day of the Great Road through Chiltistan to the foot of the Hindu Kush.

Look!" and Ralston pointed down to the roof-tops of the city, whereon the women and children worked and played.

For the most part they were enclosed within brick walls, and the two men looked down into them as you might look in the rooms of a doll's house by taking off the lid.