1 HUMSAUYAHa 171
2 oommu-
3 nitjr, tbe oomponent parts of whidi are classed aooording to llidr de^
4 •cent ; but, thoni^ this is the conunoiiett fonn of die society, U is
5 not wHhout varisdons and exoejitions. Itos of two subdiTuions may
6 inhabit the same viUage^ andinthat«ase,ihoii|^eadihasaheadof
7 Its own, they hold their Jeeigas in common* and act eiactly as if
8 iSm^ were one subdivision.
9 A divinon whidi quits its own Odiooss, may be adopted into
10 another. It lipart of the A^iaimrnlesofhos|^aUty,totrest stran-
11 sucii drcumstanoes with particnhur sftootion. lliey are as-
12 signed lands by t]ie tribes which they jdn. Their chief has a seat at
13 the principal Jeeiga, his people retain their tnteiiial government, and
14 axe exactly on a Noting with the ocigbal members of the Odooss:
15 they are suigecttothe same laws, enjoy the same privil^es, enttiK
16 into the wars and alKsnees of the Oolooss which they have joined^
17 and thougli they retain the name of that from which they are sprang
18 they, Ibr die time, lose aQ oonnectioii with it. . Thsj dcs however,
19 sometimes return to their original Oolooss, and in the ,event of a
20 war between it and that which has idopted them, they would not,
21 among the western tribes, be expected to take any part. Among the
22 eastern Afghauns, they would be obliged to assist the Oolooss with
23 which they lived.
24 These adopted divisions are much infierior in numbers to the. rest
25 of the Oolooss.
26 Individuals who leave their tribe from disgust, without selling their
27 lands, arc in many cases received into the Oolooss which th^ join,
28 and have lands assigned them ; but persons who sell their lands, and
29 'leave their tribe firom poverty, are placed in the dass of daiiaen%
30 which is next to be mentioned.
31 £very Oolooss has many people attached to it, who are not Af-
32 ghauns. These are called Humsauyaba. *
33 *
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