1 EMPLOYMENT OF THE POFUUkTlON.
2 nigged aaodnts and defiles, and as the Gaubul river, there stony and
3 irapid, mutt be often croaaed, the aouthem load thioaig^ Skyber, i»
4 generally prefiaRed,-
5 The niimbeni of the Upper Momunda are awd to be ten-dioinaad
6 ftmiliea ; a populatioii in which I chi acsrcely bdiev^ aa many parta
7 of iibe MUa are uninhabited, and otheia diinly peopled, while the po*
8 ^alatkm of die plaina ia probafalj oompoaed in jpait of Hindkeds. ' .
9 ThB goremment ia di^uhur. The direct power of Ihe Kbaiin ia
10 anall, exoqpt in militaiy cgqiedmuuii» but hia influence with; the
11 MnDiha 'ia'great» and their anihority ia atrang in their dana. Tbe
12 Khmm tiiBea no ahere in the admiidatnrtion of juatice* iiielfiill&a
13 aettle'diapntea by mcana of Jeeigaa. The Khaim dertrea no tercBue
14 fiom the tribe, and haa no greater share in the Momund coanbjr dm
15 any other individual ; but he hblda some landa of the King, andie-
16 . eahrea a penaion besides; in retain, he is answerable for the safety
17 of travellers in the Currapa Vnu, and fumiahea from three to five
18 hundred horse for the royal army. Travellers would be plundered
19 lAo attempted to go through the Momund countiy alane^ 'bol •
20 aingle Momund will pass a whole caravan.
21 Their dress and ibod are like thoae of Baioor, but their dweUin^
22 are hovels made of mats.
23 They live in very small hamlets, and the shepherds are scnttrred
24 o^ er the hills in single cottaf?es, winch are only inhabited in suniiner.
25 Dieir hirge villages, Laulpoora, Katimeh, and Goshtpli. contain only
26 texracetl houses, and are consider;)} )le places. Tiie two last are
27 Willed. They are inhabited by chiets and their retainers (who are
28 not generally Momunds), and by Hindkees.
29 Most of the country people are employ eil iu agriculture, and some
30 in feeding flocks on the uninhabited parts of the hills. In winter,
31 -these emplo^Tjicnts are suspended, and they fill up their time at
32 home, with making inaLs, saiululs, &c, fecm the leaves of the dwarf
33 palm. They export their mats to Peshawer, uud al»io carry grain to
34 diedarge villages, receiving returns in salt, cotton cloth, coarse silks,
35 inft flonie other articles.
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