1 172 KING'S POWER.
2 ' ITiey have no place at the Jeeiga» but their interests are watched
3 over by the divisimi to which they belong, and by the individuals ib
4 whom they have attached themsdres.
5 It is a point of honour for every man to protect his Huirtsauyehs j
6 andi consequently, their condition is little inferior to that of the
7 members of the Oolooss. *
8 AighiHins who join an Oolooss, afler quitting their own from po-
9 verty, are considered a.s Humsauyehs, but arc treated with more re-
10 gard than the rest of that class. In one tribe, the Gundehpoors, the
11 numbers of Humsauyehs, of the Beloche and other nations, greatly
12 exceed those of the Oolooss ; and there, 1 believe, they take the
13 name, and enjoy all tlie privileges of members of the Oolooss,
14 which is constantlv reproached with this corruption. In general,
15 they are very interior in numbers to the Oolooss, and in some
16 of the tribes at a difstancc from the great roads, there are scarce
17 any Humsauyehs at all. Humsauyehs have not in general landed
18 propertyli
19 An assemblage of many commonwealths such as I have described,
20 composes the Afghaun nation, and the whole, or nearly the whole, is
21 formed into one .state by the supreme authority of a common sove-
22 reign.
23 The King is the natural head of the tribe of Dooraunee, the
24 greatest, bravest, and most civilised in the ni^on ; but his paramount
25 authority over the other tribes, has been superinduced by causes
26 which will hereafter be eKplamed.
27 That authority extends to a genersl superintendanoe over the
28 whole kingdom, and to die levying fixed proportions of troops or
29 money, or both, from each tribe, for the conmion defence. The whole
30 * One of the few quarn-ls I have beard <tf among the Dooraunees, origitiated hi m
31 injury oArad to a Hmmauy* )i. A Hindoo Hvmiaiiiydi at one Noonye due^ hod gone
32 * to the village of another ; while on Us return, he was seized by a third, on pretence of
33 his owint' tills chiet" money. The two other chiefs joined, lUid attacked the one who hod
34 seized the i^iummuycli, Uluud wax shed, aud it required the interposition of the Naib of
35 Gandabar to oompow die qoarrd.
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