Word: shamianah
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...showed his "faith and trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts is due to the young men who are only one in 20 of us. All the rest are loyal and we pray the Government to show pity on us poor people. We pray that the Government will show its pleasure...
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