1 334 DIVISION OF LANDS.
2 Baujour, item which they have since been expelled. All the xeei of
3 the country remained to the Eusofzyes, who, however, engaged to
4 provide for certain in&sif» tcibes j the piincipel emong these, were
5 the Otmeimkheil, to whom they assigned their preeent tenitory ia
6 tlie mountains east of Bejour. Punjcora, which s^m»t]ien tO'ha?e
7 been part of Bajour, remained to the EuHofzyes, and the rest wm
8 some years afterwards occupied bv its present possessors the
9 Turkolauneesy or TuiJ&aunees, who probably took it izom the Deg-
10 gauns.
11 . The interior division of the lands among; the subordinate brandies
12 of the tribe of Eusofzye, and among the individual members ot those
13 branches, is not recorded: it may, however, be easily ascertained
14 trom the present state of property in the Eusofzve country, and it
15 will be found to involve some verv singular nistiLuLioiih. The tribe
16 of Eusofzye is divided into two great branches, Eusof and Muntler,
17 the first of which acquired Swaut, Funjcora, and Booiieic, and the
18 latter the ])lain north of the Caubul river, with the valley <>( Chunila.
19 The Eusot are again divided into three separate, and auw independent
20 clans, the Accozyes, Moollez) es, and Lawczyes, of whom the turiiiei
21 obtained Swaut and i'luijcora, and tlic two latter Boonere. The com-
22 plete property of the soil was vested in eadi clan, and the Swaufees
23 who remained, rare redbced to the condHioa of villains, or, as the
24 Enao&yescalltbeni FakeecB*. Tliia is tlte state in-whidi things ai^
25 at this dsjr. . ' i . i
26 •■■ "Eadi of these dans divided its leads among its Khails f, at a geoe-
27 laTmeeling of .the daiii and this anaogement wai repeated* tfaraii||^
28 out all the subordinate divisions. ■ Each* of the Khaila leoeived ' its
29 lands in perpetuity ; but s di£Eeient aKrangement wai adopted widib
30 * Thii phrase is used among the Uzbeks for the peasantry. It is used here for
31 the subjects of the tribe, who, in other parts of tlie Afgfamin oountiy, are. called
32 Ryots. In Persian they arc termed Eel Ryots. ' *
33 f Fokr an explanation of the divisions of an Afghaun trib^ see the Note and Table
34 kk pig* i6«k
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