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2 EASTEEN AND WESTERN AFaHAUN&
3 bKvwii, aod ravdj ncL Tlieir hitr is flhrajw oome and itaoag: Aejr
4 -diave the middle part of the liead, but iraw the rest of thdr famr.
5 The tribes near towns weir it short, but the rest have long snd Uvge
6 locks hanging down on each side of the head. They wear feng and
7 thick beards. Their countenance has an expression of wianKaess and
8 ddiberatioit» united to an air of simpUcity, not: aDied to wvMkness.
9 The eastern Afghauns have the national ' features most ttnmify
10 marked } though they have least of the expression above alluded to.
11 The lineaments of the western tribes are less distinct, and exhibit a
12 mudi greater variety of countenan(»» some of them having blunt
13 features, entirely diffierent from those I Imve described ; their hi^
14 cheek bones, however, never leave them. The western A^g^isnns SBPfi
15 larger and stouter than those of the east, and some Dooraunees and
16 Ghiljies are of surprising strength and stature; but genot^lUjr apeak
17 ing, the Afghauns arc not so tall as the English.
18 The eastern Afghauns }in% e generally dark complexions, approach-
19 infT to that of the Hindoostauneps ; while those of the west are olive,
20 with a hcakh\ colour mid appearance ; hut among them, as among
21 the eastern Afijciiauiis, men as swarthv ns Indian'*, and others as fair
22 as Europeans, are to be met ^iVith in the same neighix)urhood ; the
23 fair are by much the most common in the westt and the dark in the
24 east.
25 Besides this difference, which is created hy climate, the eastern
26 and western Afgliauns are distingiiished by other peculiarities, which
27 appear in general to arise from the different quarters from which the
28 two divisions have acquired their manners.
29 Those of the west have derived their dviliaation inm the Penians»
30 and those of the east from the fodians, and each resemUea fai dxess
31 and manners the people widi which it is thus oonnecteds while the
32 inhabitants of the central part of the south, equally renotefiom both
33 of the great empires to wUcb I have a]hided» and at a distance firom
34 great roads, ^pear to have retained the original habits of their own
35 nirtjoB* FVom the superior extent of the coontiy mhihiiiid hy die
36 westeni tribes^ snd ftoim the supitsuiac^ whidi two of dioso tribes
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