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2 SIBDEHEES. HINDKEES.
3 The GSadAeea are a small tribe wbo lire at Siidflh ionth-eagt of
4 Ghiumee. The inhabiitaiits of Seestaun may all be counted Taiyik^
5 and that cla« u in tlicr north of the Belodie ^oonnbrjf^ bat
6 those divioooa need not be mentioned here. They are, however,
7 mduded in an estimatie formerly made of the numbers of the Taujiks
8 in the King of Canbul's dominioiis, which were conjectured to be
9 1^00,000.
10 Tlie Hindkees, though much more numerous than the Taujiks,
11 require Je^-s rm juion, as they are all of Indian descent, and retain the
12 well known ;i|ipearance and manners of their original country ; to-
13 ther with a mixture of those which have been attributed to the
14 Eaatem Afghaims*. Thev are Avorse treated than the Taujiks, and
15 by no means bear so respectable a character. The provinces on the
16 eastern bajik of the Indus, arc generally peopled by a class of Hind-
17 kees called Juts, w lio also coiiiposethe Mussulman prasaniry of the
18 Punjaub, form the principal population of Sind, and are found mixed
19 with Beloches ^cnighout all the south-west of B^ochestan, and in
20 Mnkelwiiiid. In BeiocheBlan diey ara called Jagdalla> ■» wdl as Juts,
21 ind the tribe of tbeni wllkli inhabit* lioa, ii called by the names of
22 Jokhna and^oomiee. The great extent througli which the Juts are
23 acatteied, excites the lame ctmoaiiiy with the atoi^ of the IWijiks,
24 whoae situation la veiy similar to-that of the Jii|s. ^
25 Another dass of Hindkees called Awiunsy live on llie banks of the
26 Indus, about Odla-bau^ and the a^oining parts of the Pkinjaiib.
27 The Pttraunchehs, another dass of Hindkees, seeni to have been
28 regarding whom every thing else is uncertain. Fcrishta asserts them to Ix- a tribe of
29 A%haiin8 ; and 1 have heard from other sources, tliat they are the inhabitants ot' a
30 dty called KhaUiidi, or Khiillvg, iHiidi come place on tlie Oxni^ ud oAeca to die
31 north-west of Candahar, while otliers deny the cxistcnct- of thi« city altogediai^ and
32 ■ay that the Khullujees nre a religious sect, not iKxuliar to any nation.
33 • Plate (V.) shews the appearance ot a Uindkcc ul' Peshawer in hia winter dress,
34 howner, happens to ifpraadi man nearly to that of the west, than is ^te
35 lAwnuitenatw fot a IfindkiMt
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