1 SUBSBKmSML OF THE DOWLDTKHAIL. 971
2 -washtees, is to enforce the lawful orden of the Khaim, and to settle
3 d\spaten by his awn wathimty, md puaidi diaordefs ef^en in the
4 perscm of .the Elnim liiiiMel£ Hie whole tribe: is always ready to
5 support hhn* to iridch they bind rthenuelyeB by an^oath* whad the
6 f-fc^^aiinteflii ave ilsttitOm it la mi oHce of wwiffin noweri and^ Mmunm
7 :denble profitt as all the fines levied by the GheLwaahtees are divided
8 among themselves. The {lower of the Meer is not so absohite over
9 jthe odier Chdwaahtecsy as to enable him to gratiiy his own leveDgOf
10 or .puTsue his own .inlenst at the expenoe of any of the menibeiB.of
11 the tribe*. His oflbe is genendly anniukl» bat soUnetimes he is only
12 dected to preside. over a mardiy.or to command in a war, and hk
13 .power ends with the oocaaioa which gave rise to it. It is sometimes
14 allowed to expire^ paiticalarly in tunes of great tranquOUty $ but the
15 disosdeia» which immediatdy oMnmenoe i^ain, soon make the tribe
16 regret it, and .determine them to leatoie 'it
17 I This m^istra«7:does not eiJat in tribes where the Khaun-bas
18 power enough to restrain the turbulence of the- people. It is evi»
19 dently intended to remedy the bad efeots of the weakness* of the
20 iiereditary cliie&, and is the first step fiom a patriarchal government
21 to a lepdbhc in its usual fiffm. ■
22 Damaun also furnish^ an example of the transition from a patr^
23 archal government to a mUitary despotism } but as this change is not
24 so easy and natural as the other, and as it was partly effected by ex^
25 temal causes, it will require to be explained at greater length.
26 The Dowlutkhail had formerly a hereditary Khaun, who seems to
27 have been held in ereat veneration by the tribe. By degrees, how-
28 ever, hij authority grew weak, and the government lell first into the
29 hands of the Miilliks, and atter%vards of the people. The Dowlut-
30 khail were now in the same state of anarchy that 1 have described
31 • * Onp tribCb dw Meemnkhail, hna four Meera, all of equal power, but the ituxmve-
32 ■MBC* of diis tnsngcmcol U Knnetunes felt from their dmemioOKf which ith naoflMaiy
33 to remedy by an astemUy of the MnlUk% «bo dcdde the dupiile^ and fiacthe Meer wlio
34 is moK^ in the «xon«.
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