A member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan.
1But a Pathan is always touchy about matters of honour and horseflesh.
2He had to ride up close before he recognized the Orakzai Pathan.
3Yea, he was true Pathan then, and I loved him the more.
4He was all Pathan then, Sahib, and handling his enemy right subtly.
5The Sikh drinks what he will; the Pathan is an abstainer.
6But the Pathan led the priest to the door and thrust him out.
7Now she is a Muslim lady, probably a Pathan, at home in Pakistan.
8The Orakzai Pathan crouched among the women, and the women grinned.
9The Pathan drew himself up with all the haughty pride of his race.
10The Pathan thumped him on the back so hard that his eyes watered.
11The Sikh is burnt after death; the Pathan would be thus deprived of Paradise.
12The Sikh wears his hair down to his waist; the Pathan shaves his head.
13The Pathan laughed and came back to gather him like a sheaf of corn.
14The Pathan spurned them with his heel as he passed.
15Even the Pathan expects that which he can not understand.
16Ralston's Pathan was even then waiting for Linforth at the bottom of the tower.