1 I
2 AFOHiLtTMS NOT ATTACHED TO THE CHIEF. X68
3 tD dw iilnitfaoii of • privilep«fm when llw period of fab ofltebas
4 expired.
5 It mmy be wtalk while to remark the circuniitinoet on whkh die
6 extent of tlie power of the chiefi dep^d«. In tribes that are
7 to the King, the Khaun derives much influence firom his
8 iployment of collecting the royal revenue and raising the militwy
9 and indirectly, firora the emoluments attached to those duties. His
10 personal character materially affects his power and influen<» The
11 possession of wealth, by enabling him to keep numerous retainers,
12 and to confer obligations on the heads oi his Oolooss, igfreatly
13 strengthens his power. On the other hand, where the tribe is smaU^
14 or its inhabited lands very compact, the heatU of all the divisi^nns,
15 great and small, often meet in one Jeerga, which, uniting the whole
16 strength of the Oolooss, can never be controuled by the Khauu. The
17 Khaun's having a powerlul rival in Ins iaiiiily, tlie facility which a
18 discontented division may possess of seceding and joining some other
19 Oolooss ; aadi any circumstance which disposes the people to con-
20 tentioManesB and jealousy, always ttml io Vaat theKh«an*8 authority.
21 On the wheleii it it generally obflcmble that €be tribea nkwt nndat
22 tlie Kng*a inftnwice ue moit obedient to their EhHm» thoii|^ them
23 ale Kime atriking esoqBtianB to this ndew
24 Throughout all die tribes* the danniah attaduneiitof the AJfffmmh
25 nnlike that of the Hi^dander^ b father to the commmiit^ than to
26 the cfaiaf I an^ thoogh in their notion of their Ehaiin, ike idea of a
27 mi^iatraie set upftr the pnUUc good ia oertainlj mixed with that of
28 n painaichal md natmd aoperiort yet the former impiMrion will
29 always be Ibond to be die Wrongest. Accordingly the power of * life
30 and death, so commonly exeiciaed by cfaie6 in (he Hi|^hlands wheH
31 chMwhip was in its vigour, is scarcely ever poaaewed by an Afghaun
32 Khaun ; and it is but rardty that the personal interests of the KhalHl
33 would lead a tribe to take any atep inoonaiatent with its own honour
34 or advaoti^
35 Y 2
36 I
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