1 EMIGRATION FROM KHOBASSAUN. aSl
2 tiMted Uie Enfldkyn wHli the gnitett dtitiiictioii ; he wm, Indeed,
3 ^dependeot on Uieir ttostence' fi>r tbe support of bu thione '; but the
4 tinhiileiit uklepeiklfliioe'af the Eosofzyes was not' suited' to an iiiti-
5 'mate ooiilMiction with a sovereign, and their insolence increasing with
6 ^idr {nosperily, they insulted Ulugh B^*b authority, plundered his
7 Tillages, and 'enren fflled his capital with tumult and confiision. Ulugh
8 B^, whose power was now strengthened by the accession of many
9 Mogulsy who flocked to his standard, resolved to rid himself of his
10 trauUesome allies; he began by fomenting dissensions between the
11 Euao&yes and Guggeeaune^ (for the Kliukkyes had now broken into
12 indqpeident clans), and soon after attacked them at the head of that
13 tribe and his owm army. He was defeated at first ; but having cut
14 off all the chiefs of the tribe at a banquet, durinf]^ an insidious peace
15 which he had the art to conchide with tiiem, he pknidered the Eu*
16 sofzves ot" all their possessions, and drove them out of Caubii!. The
17 Eii^oizvt!), reduced to extreme distress, took the wi^ to the neigh-
18 bourliood <»f Peshawer. * ' ' " •
19 • 'That country was then in a very different state from that in which
20 it is at pre«ieat. The tribes who now possess it, were then in Khoi^
21 rassaun, and the plain of Peshawer, with several ot the neighbouring
22 countries, were possessed by u ibtjs which have since either entirely
23 disappeureii, or have changed their seats. TiUghmaun was in the
24 hands of the Turkoohuniees, who are now in Ikijuur ; the tribes of
25 Khyber and the Bungushes, had alrt-atiy t>LCupied their present lands,
26 but all the lower part of the valley of the Caubul, all the plain of Pesh-
27 awer, with part of Bajour, Chuch, Huzaiireh, aiid the countries east
28 of ibetn, as iar as the Hydaspes, belonged to the A%haun-tr3)e of
29 JDilemik, which is bow' almost extiipatod. - The ooimtiy betwe^
30 tfae-Dflaawuks and the ringe of Hindoo Coosh,- on both sides of the
31 IiiduBt £bnned the knigdom of Swant* whjdi was inhabited ' bjra dis«
32 linci iurtioii) and ruled by Sultann Oveiss, whose ancestors had lomg^
33 reigned over that oountiy. /
34 On the'&st arrival of the Eoso&yes* thej threw themselves on the
35 genAoHtj ' of- tfie CSIaawiH who assigned them theDoisuheb for
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