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2 A stiU ftntnger appeal is made when a woman sends her veiLto «ii
3 ^%haun, and implores his assistance for heraelf or h^ ftxhily. Jt
4 was by this expedient that Timour Shauh*s queen prevailed on Sirir
5 ^auz Khaun, (the father of the present Grand Vizier), to afford his
6 pssistance in the elevation of Sliauh Zemaun to the throne) suievtsotq
7 phieily brourrht about by his intiuciu i\ ' .
8 This last custom is not connot t i d with the laws of hospitality ; but
9 it is those laws alone which proti ct everv individual who has entered
10 the house ot an Atghaun. A nmn s l)itterest enemy is sale, wliilc he.
11 Is under his roof; and a stranger, who has come into an Atghaun's
12 house or tent, is under the protection of the master as long as he
13 9tays in the villa^je. From this principle, arises the obligation of
14 protecting and delendiug a fugitive, whatever may be his crime ; aud
15 hence the fretjuency of elopements with women from one Oulooss
16 |« another, and of the refuge found by murderers in a similar flight
17 The protection, which the rights of hospitality confer, does not,
18 iKmever, extend beyond the lands of the viUaget or at moflt, of the
19 tiibe; and, there ve undoubted tertimonies of AJ|^Miuns, of predatory
20 tribes entegrtaining a ti«reiUer» and. disnuaring him with presents, and
21 jet robbing htm when they met him agam, after he mi out of their
22 pioteotion* *
23 It seems astonishing to an Eoropeanf - that the redpioeal good
24 offices, which must pass between the host and the gnest^ should not
25 ^hurna, both parties fast; and it is hvmgor ivfiicfi cnfhrcc, n ronTfjlinnrc ^vitli theilemaad.
26 Jn Kunmtwautee^ oo th« conttarjr, there is no restraint on either party's eating, and the
27 Ibreeof die pnctioe bewi on Ae honour done of Ihe penon to whom it bcBfected. ' It it
28 .aomeChitig like the castom of the Romaiu, by which a suppliant enlmd • house, and
29 IHftti.'d liimselfin silence, with his head veiled, on the heart li. Thr custom of thr- GrrfV^s
30 resembles that now alluded to ; and the bdiaviour ot Ul^-i>&e»« to Circ^ when he ro-
31 to partdw of her binqiMl^ tin aihe baa diaendianted Ui iHends, (Od. K. verse 375,
32 &c) is exactly in the spirit of amiiawaiitcr. •
33 • A mo«t remarkable instance of this spirit has l>oen mentioned, in (
34 of two gentlemen of the Mia«ion, who went to Deranbund.
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