1 ANARCHY OP THE EUSOFZYES:
2 337
3 NoM ef die eastern Afghauns but thoae already mentioned, sod
4 tiro or three dans oi' the Oorookzyes, have this custom. There are
5 some traces of its having prevailed among some tribes in Khoras-
6 saun, but the only renininin^r instance of its existenre that has
7 reached me, is among the Baraiclics, where villap'e sometimes dravr^ ^
8 lots with villager or man with man, but without uny Watsh amoug
9 dans. *
10 ^^' hat \im already been said, will have prepared the rejider for (lie
11 utmost weakness of the goverunient, if not for the absence of all
12 government. A sense of independence, carried bevomi tin boimds
13 w Jiich are essential to order, is characteristic of all the Atghamis j but
14 nio.sL of their governmt iits are despotisms, ^hen compared with that
15 of the Eusofzyes, The slender tie wlacli holds t/ieir societies together,
16 is deriv^ from community of blood, and subordination to the repre-
17 sentative of a common .ancesttMT. Their government is patriardial,
18 but its e£Eocm ave vciy ^fifent fiom ihoie nMA have been attri-
19 bafeed to tliat form of aaraeignty. Tbe bead of tbe KhaaiDinrfca iii
20 Ofl dtmmdiii^ of tbe eldnt mb of their fionimon aneeator, but die
21 htt appeanmoeof hia poarer waa in Nabdir Shauh'a reign, wben all
22 die£iaM6yeaiiiiitedtora0iafetbBtooiuiii8for. The head of the NaJk^
23 peaUbail demeahla aatfaoaty from the aenkeaouica Hk'powcvado
24 not leqiiire a loi|g enimicntioii ( he coaunanda in war, mi^eet to the
25 venibitkMiB of a oonndl of the MnUika, who in thair turn are influ*
26 * This cu»tora i» stated bj VoIn«y to be stUl practised in Corsicn. It ^pean b;
27 die fallowing ol)MrTatioiii of Tadttta, to bave jurerailed among the aadentCterraaiia; but
28 tvhether it was only illdiffidual* that miMd, or vliale Rocicties, dqiends on the read*
29 ing of a dispulotl pasgap'-. S^n pro numero cukonim ab tinivenis per " vla's" oc-
30 cupantur, qui>s> max inter ^ctuiuliitn dignationcm paitiuntur: &eilitatcm portiendi
31 cwiiyowiui vp&UK pnaatant. An a {K-ranioa mutant Oermania xxfu If we remi <*|icr
32 viboa <Moa|Mntiir,'* aa is recum mended by mai^ of the commentatons tuul as the seme
33 uems to require, we shall have pretty nearly the mode €if diistributloij ivlia li I bare
34 d^cribed, Cc«ar al«o has the following passage: — Neque qui8<|u<uii ugn modum
35 cert am aut fines proprids habet, «ed magbttatiu ac prindpet in annas singuloe genii-
36 bus cognationibosqae homtnum, qui una coierunt, quautnai tSt Ct t/uo looo vinntt ail
37 ■Itfiwuwt aHine moo pent siio transire cogmni,
38 X X
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