1 GOVERNMENT OF A £USOFZY£ OOLOObS.
2 in|e^fiv«l in diqmlvi bctwiMi tupo claiii» but Ins nuoHs m-«ISDO«UMiiP
3 dalmgihm dtfcmM^ d^poidi nom i>i| -«^giiiluoto..tlin ,Vm
4 iMtthoi^t -aiidjiti^ontbeMfptieeof the diyutanti thin cn'eitliflb
5 Meed the whf^ of his authdritj ariM firoiBliis penHnd/mi^il, md
6 tliat it deriTed from his faiith and -lib ^iod renHiMt ^ twlliMiiio ]Mb*
7 lie tevemiet and neither more wealth, more immediate clansmen, nor
8 more hind aeryaati than the hdad of an^ other dan.- The heads of
9 clans have not much more powa* ; the^ are, hodrerer, reterred to in
10 duputes between individuals, particularly if they live in difierent yHU
11 lages; for each dim, instead of being asseny^bd tnone phK% is seat*
12 tered through different villages, which it shares with members other
13 dans, oil, however, living in distinct quarters, and under separate
14 chiofs. None of nil theie chielB have mithoritj equal te that: of a
15 constable in l^Jigland.
16 It is lianllv nocessary to say that the Eusotzyes sot ihv Kin^ at
17 defiam c ; thev lioast ol' their ijulepentlcnce of him, htuI scarceK' con-
18 sider the tribes uutier lus jmivernnienl as Afehauns. A iimious saint
19 among the ^moizyent \> said to have left Ins ttibo a blessing and a
20 curse, ** ITiat thev should alwavs be free, but that they should never
21 be united." Considering^ the Alghaun notion of freedom, he did not
22 hazard much by the last pari of his prediction.
23 I shall illustrate the above observations by an account of the pro-
24 ceedings of a part of the Ghalleekhail, one of the clans of the Naik-
25 pcekhail.
26 The part of the Ghalleekhail which I am to speak of, inhabits at
27 present the village of Galoche, which is diajned by poftiooa of three
28 other dnis. Eadi dan livea aeperately onder its own duef (who ia
29 caHled Muahir, and who is tubordinate to the MuUik of his own dan],
30 and these quarters of the viUi^aie called Gundya. .AH thexektione
31 of each Cnmfy sore to its own dan* and it does not aeem mom etm »
32 nected with the other Cnndies in the same vilh^ than if they Gved
33 In dififasept parts of the oountiy. The Mushir of eadi Condy nuui^'
34 tahis a public apartment, wfaM all eonndls am held|-hec» ahie idm
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