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3 CHAP. XIL
4 TAUJJKSi MINDKEES, AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF AFGUAUXISTAUN.
5 IT hae been obienred, that there is scarcely any piirt of Afghaun-
6 ^istann in'ipliieh the whole population is Afghaun, and that the
7 mixture is con^poaed of Taujika in the West, and of Hindkees in the
8 East. I now proceed to give an account of those classes, and of the
9 other tribes and nations that are to be met with in A^haunistaun. *
10 ■ The situation in which we find the Taiijiks is calculated to excite
11 a degree of curiosity, whicli my information is ill calculatetl to rpmovf.
12 The Tftujiks are not utiiled into one body, liko mostt other nations, or
13 confined to one country, but are sratlcrcd uruoniiect cd throng;h a
14 great part of Afii a, Tlu v ar(> mixotl witli the Uzbeks tlirough the
15 greator part ot their dominions, in the same manner as with the Ai-
16 ghauns. The fixed inhabitants of Peroia are called Taujiks, in con-
17 tradistinction to their Tartar invaders ; and abo to the moving tribes,
18 who 8eem to have been orignialiy Persian. They are found even in
19 Chinese Toorkistaun ; and they possess independent governments, in
20 the mouiitanioub countries 6f Kurrategeen, Durwauz, Wukkeekha,
21 and Budukhshaun. Except in those strong countries, and in a few
22 sequestered placeti, which will be mentioned hereafter, they are never
23 * * Bniber «iiiiiiMi«t«i the tribei wludi inhalMfed GMriia] in Ui day. In tke pbui
24 were Toorks, Eimauks, aiid Arabs. In the towns, and in some villages, Taujiks, Pua-
25 hauecs, and Fnraunchchs. In the hills were Hazaurehs, Togderrees, A%haunB, and
26 Caufers. The hmgaages, sjx>ken among these tribes, were Arabic, Peraiaii, Toorkec^
27 Moilj^iooIlM^ IBndM^ Aj^haiuicf^ FtathMieeii PlinmudMi^ Chdnree, Bnmiluc^ and
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