Rahmatullah Khan, chief of Dir, is an Eusafzai, ruler of a population exceeding 600,000.

Shao Baba took up the matter, and not until the Dir chief had written contradicting the statement and certifying that he had asked my companions to bring from India a hakim, were suspicions allayed.

Two marches took us from Kumbar (elevation 4,420 feet) to Dir (5,650 feet).

Here our party was joined by the Dir chief, who having settled his disputes, was proceeding to his capital.

The spurs fall in perpendicular cliffs of some 20 feet in height, and in these are traces of numerous caves similar to those already spoken of, and some of which are still used as dwellings by the Balti people, who come to take service as porters between Dir and Chitral.

The people of this village pay tribute to Dir as well as Chitral, and this tribute is rendered in the form of escort to travellers ascending the pass.

The Pass (Kotal) forms the northern boundary of Dir territory.

Passing on to the Panjkhora river and to Dir, there was very little doubt that those valleys were the scene of some of Alexander's exploits on his way to India.

Many scholars supposed that Dir was one of the fortresses which Alexander took, and incidentally the place was mentioned by Marco Polo as the route of a Mongol horde from Badakshan into Kashmir.

Questo era il dono (se però dir lece)

Quivi egli entrò, per riposarsi, in mezo; E v'ebbe travaglioso albergo e crudo, E, più che dir si possa, empio soggiorno, Quell'infelice e sfortunato giorno.

Mentre egli il suon de' sacri detti sciolse, Colei di gioia trasmutossi, e rise: E in atto di morir lieto e vivace, Dir parea; S'apre il cielo; io vado in pace.

The messenger whom Ralston sent with a sealed letter to the Resident at Kohara left Peshawur in the afternoon and travelled up the road by way of Dir and the Lowari Pass.

Che per l' effetto de' suo' ma' pensieri, Fidandomi di lui, io fossi preso, E poscia morto, dir non è mestieri.

io t' ho seguito con perfetto amore: Non mi potresti dir maggiore ingiuria.

I have been to see the Museum of sculpture and painting in the Louvre, but what is to be seen there baffles all description: Se tante lingue avessi e tante voci Quanti occhi il cielo o quante arene il mare Non basterian a dir le lodi immense.

Sie singt dir hold zum Ohre, Die schönste Jungfrau sitzet Sie blickt dich thöricht an, Dort oben wunderbar, Sie ist die schöne Lore, Ihr goldenes Geschmeide blitzet, Sie hat dir's angethan.

Sie singt dir hold zum Ohre, Die schönste Jungfrau sitzet Sie blickt dich thöricht an, Dort oben wunderbar, Sie ist die schöne Lore, Ihr goldenes Geschmeide blitzet, Sie hat dir's angethan.

Sie schaut wohl nach dem Rheine, Sie kämmt es mit goldenem Kamme, Als schaute sie nach dir, Und singt ein Lied dabei; Glaub's nicht, dass sie dich meine, Das hat eine wundersame Sich nicht, horch nicht nach ihr!

But Brentano's Lorelei does not sing at all, and Loeben's just a little, "Sie singt dir hold zum Ohre," while Heine, like Schreiber, puts his heroine in the prima donna class, and has her work her charms through her singing.

There are, to be sure, only 114 words in Loeben's ballad if we count "um's," "dir's," and "glaub's" as three words and not six.

Uhland has indicated this in his "Death of Tell," as only Uhland could: "Die Kraft derselben Liebe, Die du dem Knaben trugst, Ward einst in dir zum Triebe, Dass du den Zwingherrn schlugst.

Sammle dir Schätze im Himmel.

Sammle dir Schätze im Himmel.

Henry Shaw, Esq., F.S.A. Edward Smirke, Esq., F.S.A. C. Roach Smith, Esq., F.S.A. Captain W.H. Smyth, R.N., F.R.S., Dir.