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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 24, p. 380.

380 NORTHERN [VA7ÎhYSTAN in 1894-5 without open opposition from the Darwesh Khel. Raids in British territory, however, continued, and in r897 troops were sent from Datta Khel to enforce the collection of a fine which had been imposed on the village of Maizar. The villagers treacherously attacked this force, killing five British officers and men, and as a punishment their lands were laid waste by a military expedition. The tribe then sub- mitted, and the Wazirs held aloof from the subsequent risings on the north-west frontier, though their raids continued. For some years the tract between Thal and the Tochi in the Lower Kurram valley inhabited by the Kabul Khel section off the Utmanzai remained a veritable Alsatia, in which a number of outlaws from British territory found a refuge. Finally, in November, 1902, columns entered it from the Tochi, Bannu, arid Thal. The tribesmen offered little opposition, but at Gumatti a gang of outlaws made a desperate resistance. All towers were blown up and their rebuilding has not been permitted. Large numbers of outlaws (about 250) surrendered themselves after the operations, and the country has since been opened by the tribe to the passage of troops and British officers. Roads have been made from Thal to Idak in the Tochi and to Bannu. Peace is now kept in the Tochi valley, the only portion of the Agency which is administered, by a militia corps of r,318 men, of whom ro6 are mounted, the regular troops having been with- drawn in 1904. Waziristân, Southern..-Political Agency in the North-West Frontier Province, lying between 31° 55' and 320 45' N. and 69° 20 and 700 15' E., with an area of about 2,734 square miles: It is bordered on the north by the range which terminates in the Ghalimi- ghar and divides it from Northern Waziristan, while on the east its boundary runs due south along a continuation of the Babaghar singe to Jandola, whence it rises to the Girni Sar and then descends to the valley of the Gomal river above Murtaza. On the south as far as Kajuri Kach in the Gomal valley it is separated from the Shirani country by the hills south of the Gomal river, the highest of which is the famous TAKHT-I-SULAIMAN. West of Kajuri Kach the Gomal is the boundary between the Agency and the Baluchistan District of Zhob. On the west it extends to the Durand Line, demarcated in 1894. The Agency includes all the country occupied by the Mahsird branch of Wazirs, and, on the west, portions of the country of the Darwesh Khel Wazirs. The whole area- is mountainous in the extreme, the chief peaks being Shu.idar (rr,ooo), Janimela (8,400), Pir Ghal (11,6oo), Kundighar (8,1oo), Girni Sar (5,8oo), Drenashtar Narai (8,75o), Nomin (1o,8oo), and Sarwar Gul (10,7oo). The last two are in the Marwattai range which runs along the Afghan border. The outer spurs of the VVazir hills are to the eye utterly barren and