The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ashad to Herat; from Bokhara byMer\- to Herat; from Bokhara by Karchi, Balkh,and Khulm to Kabul; from East Turkistan byChitral to Jelalabad; from India by the Khyber andAbkhana roads to Kabul; from India by the GumalPass to Ghazni; and from India by the Bolan Passand Sind-Pishin railway to Kandahar. No accurate statistics of the trade between Af-ghanistan and India have yet been only one-sixth of the freight carried bythe Sind-Pishin railway, amounting in value to Rjc2,500,000 annually, ca
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ashad to Herat; from Bokhara byMer\- to Herat; from Bokhara by Karchi, Balkh,and Khulm to Kabul; from East Turkistan byChitral to Jelalabad; from India by the Khyber andAbkhana roads to Kabul; from India by the GumalPass to Ghazni; and from India by the Bolan Passand Sind-Pishin railway to Kandahar. No accurate statistics of the trade between Af-ghanistan and India have yet been only one-sixth of the freight carried bythe Sind-Pishin railway, amounting in value to Rjc2,500,000 annually, can be classed as imports andexports between the two countries. The tradebetween the Kabul district and India during thepast five years has been registered as follows: 1892—Rx. 1S93—Rx. 1S94—Rx. 1895—Rx. 1S96— from . 610,500 270,575 326,250Exports to India 220,850 152,791 165,000 Of the above imports, the principal articles arecotton goods, indigo, sugar, and China exports include horses,spices,assafoetida, A F I U .M K A R A I 1 1 S S A R — A V R I C A 59 and nuts. The prohibitive duties on merchandisein transit levied by the Ameer retard commercebetween India and the country north of the late Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan, who came topowerin i88o,died , wassucceededbyhis son, His Highness HabibuUa Khan, born, 1871. AFRANCESADOS, a sobriquet applied to thoseSpaniards who gave their allegiance to the Frenchand acknowledged Joseph Bonaparte as their kingin 1808-13. Ferdinand VII took severe vengeanceon the Afrancesados after his restoration. *AFRIC.\, up to within the past few years, says theLondon Times, has hardly been needed by the restof the world, except as a slave-market, — a land ofbarbarism, in which many of the native tribes carriedon wars, of which the main object has been to takecaptives and sell them to the Semitic-Arab dealers inslaves. The horrors of this bloody marke
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