1 Xii CONTENTS
2 Effect of religion on the manners of the people. — Prayers. — Fasts. — Pilgritn«^.
3 Alms. — Dice and wine forbidden. — The office of Moohtet<ib, and other means of
4 epforcinK observance of religion and morals. — MooUiilis. — Tlieir numbers. — Their
5 power and influence. — Their vice*. «— Their means of Urelihood. — How invested with
6 the character. — Under no church government. — Manners. — Question regarding their
7 utility. — Dervises, sointa, and other holy men. — Sm^erstitions. — Alch>Tny and ma-
8 gic. — Tlic ^dens of Junishecd. — Ghools or spirits of the waste. — Ghosts. — Dreams.
9 Divination Sortcs Virgilianoe - - - - Page 200
10 rHAP VT.
11 HOSriTAUTYt PRtDATOHY HABITBt &C.
12 Hospitality. — Nannawautec and other methods of supplication. — Sanctity of a guest.
13 — Mixture of hospitality and rapacity Rapine, how occasioned. — WTicre most
14 prevalent. ■— Safeguards - - - - - - 226
15 CHAR VTL
16 MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CHARACTEn OF THE AFGHAUSg.
17 Division of the Afghauns into inhabitants of tents and of houjics. — Increase of those in
18 houaes. — Causes of that incrett.se. — Doubts reparditig an opinion of Volney. — Housea
19 and furniture of the common {xx^plc. — Manner of sitting. — Way of pacing time.
20 — Smoking. — Kuliiauns. — Snuff. — Reception of a visitor. — Feasts. — Talcs, songs,
21 and music — Amusements. — Hunting. — Races. — Military .porUi. — Dances. —
22 Games. — Dress of the inen.~ Drei»s of the women. — Conveyances of Afghaunistaun.
23 — Horses and their furniture. — Elephants. — Littert. — Couriers. — Of slaves. —
24 Whence procnred. — llieir condition and cniplo^-ments. — Emancipation. — Tlie Af^
25 ghauns abhor man-selling. — Form and appearance of the people. — Distinction between
26 Eastern ami Western Afghauns. — Manners. — Character - - 331
27 CHAP. VtIL
28 nv Tine iiywABiTANTS OF Tovrtts.
29 A&rhatms, few. — Bankers. — How treated by the government. — Merchants. — Shop-
30 keepers and artizans. — Oppressions arising from the system of purveyance, — and
31 from the strictness ot the police. — Afghaun division of the day and year. — Hours and
32 m«^^« of tlie conunon people in towns. — Butli*. — Food, with the price of mmc art^
33 dea. Amusements. — Way of life of a baker retired from business — Athletic exer-
34 cises of India and Persia. — General condition of tltc inhabitants of to^-ns 254
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