My thanks are due to the Afghan Government for their kindness and co-operation in allowing me to travel in Nuristan, and to Vogue for permission to reproduce Meeting an Explorer which first appeared in it and which is now incorporated in Chapter 20.
The map to illustrate the journey is based on the maps of the Survey of India and a traverse made by Wilfred Thesiger, D.S.O., in 1956, and our own researches.