1 BAUBOORa STOOfi££AUN££S.
2 irib^MMdag its iiMiiibm deierrai to be Mided, m ibe ttnie is pnw
3 bibfy obMTvedby aO the tvibetf of Dmbmiii.
4 . The tribe ib divided into fottr pert>» one ef idiidi » Bn>ht<wmiwicf#
5 end thfee MeeeunUuuL . The oiiilomt« tSb&t dedvoluig the 1Shmm'<i
6 Atnt wte divided into Ibar pntiy end eedi divisioa of the tribe geti
7 e «bar^ ivfaidi ii ifterwefds distribmed among iiie anbdivbionst bnfi
8 ' M &e nvmber of penNms in eech of Aom is liot the seme^ the divi-
9 Qon is metpnlL Hie fevcnue is asagsBod in ihe aame manner^ atHi
10 eight Chdwaahtees are taken fiom each dhriaioii.
11 Hie BMibooia am a dviliiedirilie^ mndi addicted to mefchandifee^-
12 and on the whole, the richert end most flourisiiti^ of tiie tribes ef
13 Dameon *• Their Khaun has oinsiderable power, and th^ are'tecf<
14 koned among the quietest and most honest of the A%haun tribes.
15 Th^ late chief was raised by Timour Shauh to the high office of
16 Ameen ool Moolk, and eigayed • large share of tlie confidenoe of .
17 tiiat monarch. It is rare to see a man of any tribe but the Dodnm^
18 nees eleinUsd to such a station*
19 The Bauboors of the plain are about four thousand families.
20 A large division of the Bauboors lives in Sehra, beyond the tnoun-
21 tains of Solimaun. It is contiguous to the country of the Sheerau-
22 nees-, w iih whom those Bauboors are much GCHmected» and whom they
23 resenii)]£' in their manners and customs. '
24 Tlic Stooreeaunees were, till lately, all pastoral. Their foinitrv,
25 iniieed, afforded little i t iii] it;it i )n to agriculture. Thev coiujiu red it
26 not ago troiii the Belrtehes of Damaun, and useti to make it their
27 winter station, and move their camps and flocks iu summer to tlie
28 lands of the Moosfflakhail Caukers. These migrations were rendered
29 incoHveuient or impracticable, by a quarrel which the Stooreeaunees
30 had sjhout twenty-five years ago, with a clan of Caukers, Uirough
31 whose lands they were obliged to pass. HaU' the tribe on this sold
32 There are wnw paiMm tuiiung them wbo have Imituiies of j£'jo,ooo, an immense
33 m for ihiS coyntrjr, yet th«ir property U quiM-MMfk' ' . ^
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