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2 CHAP, m
3 MANNXBS) COfTOMS, AND OHAKACTER OP THE APGUAUNS.
4 THE manner of life of the A%hauns is by no means uniform
5 throughout the country, and for varieties I must again refer to
6 thr detailed accounts of the tribes, but T shall adlicre to my plan of
7 )ni iitioning in this place all that is common to the whole. One great
8 cause of flivprsity it is nec essary to mention even here. This is the
9 division ot the nation into inhal)ilanls of tents and of houses. Those
10 who live in tents are chieiiy to be loimd in the West, where tliey pro*
11 bably amount to one half of the populat ion ; but as all over the East
12 the people live in houses, the proportion of that last class must greatly
13 preponderate in the nation. It is probable that the number of those in
14 tents has diminished, and I am oi opinion tiiat it is still diminishing*
15 The facility with whicii tribes clianged their residence in former times,
16 appears to countenance the belief» that most of them were shepherds^
17 and lired m tonto; thougii it cannot be denied that great emigrar*
18 ^onsof agrienkuiftl tribes hsre also taken plaoe.
19 The nMMremflnt of the Eniofrjpca from t£e frontiers of PeraaBro*'
20 per to'tboae mS Indk is xebted in another pUce. The other tribes
21 voond Pedunrer are alao tnwed from the east of KhcMcassami of their
22 present seats : at a stiU later period, the Ghiljies moved from a great
23 part of dieir lands, at the command of Nsndir Sliaub, and made
24 room for a portion of the Doomtmees. This, however, was a com-
25 pulsoij lemovalf enfiwoed faj a powerfid oonqueror, end no Tokm^
26 iaty emigfilionis knoimto have oocorred within a centuiy i a pmol^
27 as it appears to me^ that the people hare betaken themselves to agri*
28 cohnfi^ A pwnnt which naturdl/ attadies fliemsdves to the'soiL It
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