TO
MY MOTHER,
TO THE
INSPIRATION OF WHOSE LIFE AND TEACHING
I OWE MORE THAN
I CAN REALIZE OR RECORD [v]

Introduction

This book is a valuable record of sixteenyears’ good work by an officer—a medicalmissionary—in charge of a medical mission station at Bannu, onthe North-West Frontier of India.

Although many accounts have been written descriptive of the wildtribes on this border, there was still plenty of room for Dr.Pennell’s modestly-related narrative. Previouswriters—e.g., Paget and Mason, Holdich, Oliver, Warburton,Elsmie, and many others—have dealt with the expeditions that havetaken place from time to time against the turbulent occupants of thetrans-Indus mountains, and with the military problems and possibilitiesof the difficult regions which they inhabit. But Dr. Pennell’sstory is not concerned with the clash of arms. His mission has been topreach, to heal, and to save; and in his long and intimate intercoursewith the tribesmen, as recounted in these pages, he throws many new andinteresting sidelights on the domestic and social, as well as on themoral and religious, aspects of their lives and characters.

During a long career in India I myself have seen and heard a gooddeal about these medical missions, and I can testify to their doingexcellent and useful work, and that they are valuable and humanizingfactors and moral aids well worthy of all encouragement andsupport.

No one can read Dr. Pennell’s experiences without feeling thatthe man who is a physician and able to heal the body, in addition tobeing a preacher who can “minister to

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