Bnt I have not had time to enter ill i.o this st1 b- jwi is largely as it deserves though I n1 iy Iicl-c stulo Llin't, ti~r ri iscowries recorded in this Inquiry reg:u.di~lg :,l~rse mi 1 ws of G~eck descent ara llot lor that renso~l to I :lcy ,d ol'lll~iln~l. jcntatives of'f he posterity of the Greeirs ,ly I ill t.ilat country. 711 the conrse of the Tnqniry, I he,ve, anlongst olller ic1ent ifications, iclimfified certain tribes now inhabiting hlgli&nistan as the I -ĥ iv f '/ 1~.'101C/~!.

I therefore decided to prepare as a Monogmpli for the Congress, an 'l Inquiry into the Ethro- :' g1'3p11gr of Afgh,iiiistan,' confident that-however defective the Inquiry itself mnst necessarily be under the hurried conclilrions of its cxccution-it would at all events furnish the Orientslists with an inviting subject for investigation and fnrther research. Xeflecting on this, it occ~mecl to me that the present occssiorloffered n good opportnnity to put, Isefol athe public somo prf of what up to the present time remained with mysedf as SO ' much qseless information-useless from want of pwticipation in it witl others better qndified than ~nyself to utilize the ~nat~erials collected for the advancement of 1i110wledg0 by the elucidation of the truth from the various data. But that ' some day,' from one caqo -.* '.- and anothc~r, seems to be ns intangible as the term itself is inclefi~lit~e. I l~nppenc~l t,o have by me a Inass of miscellatieons notes aucl u~tmorancln, nncl carried in my lmncl n variety of informalion- ncquirocl unongst the people themselves-a11 relating to the in- 11ibit.ults of Afghanista l, ancl which I hacl thought of emboclying in a bnolr wliich I intelldecl sonlo day to write as n rccord of a nly mprricluces and obser~ations during a long and exceptionally v:l.riecl cafeer in the active service of Her Most Gracious Majesty's (f overnment of Inclia.

For some time I was in doubt % whether I coalcl offer anything worthy the attention of the learned mcn who would take part in the work of the Congress. I hacl no hesitation in accepting the invitation to joih t%e Congress as a member but to become a contribntor to its work mas quite another thing. Leitner to join the Ninth Internntional Congress of Orientalists, ' to be held in London in September, 1S91, I was at the same time asked to contribnte n Paper or Monograph towards the work of' tlia Congress. Jn the beginning of this year, when invited by Professor G. A FEW yoriss -are necessary to inform the reacler how illis 'Jnq~irgf into the Ethnography of Afghanistan' came to bk., mri ttcn by, me.

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