1 GUNDliHPOORS. 375
2 beeo agftaut the. Gundehpoon, who we hk neemt B^gbbonrs.
3 Thej tee little lees nmneroiM dian the Doirhitkhei1» with all their
4 Rjote, but Surwur can always impede iheir opcnaooa* bybribipg
5 some of their Afulliks ; and even when they eng^ heaitify in a ww»
6 there is a great difference betw^n viOagerB* under the temporacy
7 authority of a CIk 1 w ashtee, and the troopa of an established govern-
8 ment like.Stirwur Khaun's.
9 The general jealousy of Surwur's desilpia however, induces the Mee-
10 aunkhail and Bauben* usually the bitter demies of the Gundehpoors^
11 to unite with thm in their struggles against that ambitious chie^ and
12 these means have hitherto been sufficient to keep bis power frithin
13 due bounds.
14 The Dowlutkhall, with all their Byots and conquered tribes amount
15 |x>.eight thousand families.
16 The Gundehpoors have a hereditary Kliaim, and hereditary i\Inl-
17 liks, hut their power is very slight, and the tribe lead a lawless life,
18 phuidering strangers, stealing from the Hocks of the wandering tribes
19 whicli come into their neighbourhood!, and continually quarrelling
20 among themselves. Their weapons on these (x^easions are sticks of
21 wild olive ; so that murders are rare, but when one happens, it en-
22 tails a dcaiilv tf.Hid on the familv, as is usual auioiig the Afghauns.
23 Their public aifairs are conducted by an aiiseinbly of all the heads of
24 families in the tribe, those who cannot attend, sending some of their
25 Ikmily to represeuL them. " • ' ' -
26 WTien they have a war with Surwui, all disputes are laid aside, a
27 Chelwaditee is named, who sends a drummer round each village to
28 proclaim the time and place where the tribe is to assemble in aims,
29 and any man that AOs to attend, is fined.
30 Ihe Gundehpoors are great merchants, fifty or dsty go every year
31 to Khorassaumi and fi>ur times as many to'India;* but this cucum*
32 stance has little effbct in dviliang them> and they have a degree of
33 rudeness and brutality in their i^ipearanoe and mamMn» .which I
34 never saw in any other tribe.
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