1 ESAUKHAOS. S6S
2 They have something of the appearance of the tribes of PeduNPer^
3 bofc diess like Khjberees. The fiunilj of Brngmh^ which has mads
4 w» great a figure in India^ and fieosn wfaiclft.ara sprung the Naboba of
5 Fumikabad, is descended Gtom. ft poMant of Upper Bunguah.
6 - .West of Upper Bungush, aiellie.Toofeab Inhabiting a condnua-
7 tion of the same vallagr. . The coantrjr nd produce are, of course,
8 much the same. The people are independent on the. King, and*
9 what is surprising among Aighmins, thegr.aie i muty of the
10 Uppeir Bungush also belong to this sect. : ,
11 Farther up the same valley, which continues to stretch west neady
12 parallel to the Koorrum, are the Jaujees, the inveterate enemiea. of
13 the Toorees. Their valley runs up the steep side of the range of
14 Solimaun, and is narrower, poorer, and colder than that of tlie Toorees.
15 Tlie sides ot ihc vallov are covered witli pines ; the chief animals are
16 goats. The inliahitants live iniitjuscs iialt" sunk in the frround, wear
17 Afghniiii shirts of blanket, and bum tires day and night iov thv greater
18 ^>art of the year. One road from the Indus to Caubul runs up this
19 long valley, and atter passing the Jaujee coiuitry, issues through a
20 defile in the highest ridge of the Solimauny range* into the high
21 countries north-east of (ihuznee,
22 Neither the Jaujees !n>r Toorees are included aiuong the iierdoo-
23 raunees, and the ibliowing tribes are generally reckoned amongst
24 those .of Daiuaun ; they differ, however, iinom tliosc tribes in so many
25 points, that it will l>e more convenient to mention them here.
26 These are the Esaukhail, ihe Sheotaks, the Bunnossees, the people
27 of Dower, and the Kliostees; the three first lie to the soutli of the
28 Khuttuk country ; and the others to tiie south of the Toorees i ihey
29 have Damaun on the south. . '
30 , The country of the Esaukhail Wretches along the bank of the In-
31 dus, for upwards of thirty miles. It is about twelve miles broad, and
32 is bounded by high hills on the other three ndea. It ia a \ery fertile,
33 .well watered, populous, and highly cnltnrebBd.ooiiAtfj. The wafcsr-
34 ^XHurses we so .nuinereiis, and ao hiraed end deep, as greatly to.ob-
35 itcuct the loedi. The vilh^es.^.tfaioUyplHitediaiid]!^
36 3 A 2
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