1 KHUTTUR&
2 A%liiaiM. In winUr they^ gmeaXij .mn.daAMnB oo«to.of qnOted
3 cotton, whidiare duown aade m '.summer advanoet* .wbm a
4 htga Jmimm Aiti, and a white of.b]]ietiiKbvi» .ibnndmdmM«£
5 the gfMter number of the people. .A Loongee^eitlier twisted round
6 the walat, or worn over the shouldert is always part of the atdiei
7 Tboui^ not destitute of the Berdooraunee spirit of contrntian, tiuir
8 manners are generally mild* oUigin^ and inoffensh c. Their minds'
9 are extremely at^ive and acute^ and they are less simfde^ and mom
10 'given to firaud and chicane, than most of the Afghauns.
11 I have already mentioned that Peshawer is the fitvomite winter re-
12 treat of the Kings of Caubul. Shauh Shujau was particularly fond
13 of this place and its inhabitants, wbo repaid his partiality by a stroQg
14 and steady attachment
15 The division of Momunds which re?^ides in the })lain, is reckoned
16 to amount to tweKo thousand tiunilies. It has no connection except
17 in blood with the l^pjn i .^hlmunds. The Xhulleels are six thousand
18 families, and the Daw(K)dzYes ten thousand. Flie rest of the inhabi-
19 tat)ts of tlie plain are Hindkees. The whole population must exceed
20 300,000 souls. ' ' '
21 The slip ot barren coimtrv lictween the Indus and the plain of
22 Peshawer, is divided between the Khuttuks and Eusofzyes. The
23 former have the country south of the river of Caubul, which is
24 generally rocky or stony, but if* not without sonie smooth and green
25 meadows, particularly towards the river, where there are some beau-
26 tiful spots shaded with tamarisk aad the Indian tree called Seessoo.
27 The country bebomes roomier as one approaches the Indus. The
28 villages are few but large. Hie chief place is Aoom, a large town
29 with a neat mosque, anda handsome Baear built of steoe^ d.
30 ' Hie Khwttnka occupy a considerable, esfient of ooontiy, their hmds
31 akielch from ihe Caubul river to the Salt range* a distanee ojp about
32 aeventy milea. 13ie breadth is about tfahaty-fim miles. Their gene-
33 nl boundary on the. east is the Indus ; duowid^ a brancfa of thempoa-
34 sfaaea the town and-toritorf of Muhknd on the Indian aide; on the
35 weat thc^ have the tribea of Pediaweiv ^ Ehybereea of the Baaige
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