1 330 HISTORY Oh THE KUSOFZYES.
2 filiuii ne£Bw, Hie oountiy is well inhabited, and ooiitaina aone very
3 pt^olous villages.
4 Hie Eiuao&>y&i have possessed these countri^ for upwards of three
5 lumdred.yean J and though moat of thein have heard that their ori>
6 gok ia from the west, few possess any knowledge of the orig^ial leil-,
7 dence and former fortunes of their tribe. The Allowing aeooimt k.
8 abstracted from a histcwry of the Eusofzyes, written in a mixture of
9 Pushtoo and Persian, in the year 1184 of the Hejira (A. D. 1771).
10 The orit>;inaI historv is of considerable leiifrth, and though mixed \"rith
11 sucli fables as the superstitious and romantic notions of the country
12 suggest, it has a consistency and an appearance of trutli mikI i \;u t-
13 ness, which would entitle it to credit, even if it were not corroborated
14 by the Emperor Banhcr, who is one of the prim i pal nctors in the
15 e^ ents which it describes, and is besides one of the most correct his-
16 torians in Asia.
17 The original seats of the Eusoliyes were about Garra and Noshky>.
18 the last of wliirh places at least is on the borders of the Dushtee
19 IxK>i, or Great Salt Desart. and now held by the Beloches under.
20 Kelauti Nusseer ; their numbers at that time muyt have been very
21 inferior to what tlu v are now, a.s they only formed a branch of tiic
22 tribe of Khukkye ; ilie other branches of which were the Guggeeaa-
23 nees, the Turcolaunees, and the Mahommedzyes. They were ex-
24 pelled fiant G«na .and Koahky, about the end of the thirteenth, or
25 Bcj^ning of the fimrteenth century .the QiriBti«n.«a» and aoiBn,
26 after settled in the neighbomfaood of OrobuL BeAn tli^ had.beta
27 long there, they aflbfded their pvoteption to Meetn Uluj^ l^eg, the
28 son of Meena .^boosaidt of the home of .Timour* and were very in-,
29 ■trumental in raising him to the throne. of Ganbtil* .irhi€fa.had hetoj
30 heett held, by hia anoeatora, hut whidi probably. Waa -loat .in eooae-;
31 qaence of the c«Jftmitieg whieh beftl the. home of Thnour, on the
32 death of Meersa Abooaaid*. Ulugh "Beg, on hia first aecscaaion,
33 * See lyHerbciot, articic ALxm Said.
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