1 very large : most a£ the hoiues are dioU^ied. Snne IsagB iBlai^
2 QD ilie Indus bdoDg akb to itit FsmikhHil ; many of them arb un-
3 der iaiUiiration, and the rest Bte deanng and MpiDnm^ Tbe o^ief
4 produce of the whole country la nhett. ' . . ;
5 - 1^ JBsaukhail disregard the royal authority, and lunre Uttle ^
6 wmBBuamL wUhin th^nselves. They plunder weak.tnnreH0i^flnii ateii
7 itam tiipose who are too strong to be plundered.
8 Beyond the hUls on the west of the Ksaukhail, lies a plain, culti-
9 vated by a tribe called Sheotuk^ raspeding which I have no in&ciiuip
10 tbn.
11 Farther wost, nnd hiLHiei- up is liiinnoo, a very extensive
12 watered by the Koorriim, tliil of villages, and covered with coru
13 fields. It is hot in summer, but in winter it has ice that will bear a
14 man. It produces rice, wheat, barley, and Indian poroy in abundance,
15 and sugar cane, tobarc*.), turmeric, gniger, and a few esculent vege-
16 tables ; there-are no iVmts but melons, mulberries, c itions, k nions,
17 and limes, nieliills are bare, or onlv covered witli hushes j on the
18 plains are very large tamarisk trees, and some ol' the Lhorny bushes
19 common in India. Among the wild aumials are wild boars, wild
20 sheep, and the animal called Pauzen in Persia ; but the most extra*
21 ordinary are the wild dogs, wl)ich exactly resemble tame cmes, and
22 go in packs of four or five couple.
23 ' The people are of various clans, not connected by blood, and with-
24 out any common government They live in per])etual contraition.
25 They pay some regard to the Kintr's auth< >rit\ , and a great rodd passes
26 through their country j but uavellti » lia\ e often a great deal of
27 trouble, from the importunities of the people of every village, which
28 it b not quite safe to reject. - ■ • \ ^" *
29 Above BimnoOy and divided from it by hills, is the long Irat narrow
30 .fliley of Doirar, which sli^tches up to the country of the Jadrauni^
31 en tbe ridge of the Solmumny mountaiiis. It is a populous country,
32 ihU of walled villages, always at mr-wifli each other. Theve can be
33 little or no govemment^ auoe e poratM peffon een aeieethe'cfafl^
34 idfim V» weak oDo, tod leD them fiiT'dsFee. Thqr aW'Tiinniliiili
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