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2 CHAP. IIL
3 MOUNTAIN TUBES.
4 I AM now to speak oS. the tribes which inhabit the range of Soli'*
5 mmi ; and as I propose to begin from the ioath, I oi^^ finfe
6 to describe the ^nurrees (who inhabit that part of the mountaine
7 iriikh it to the weit of the ^NxxneeeimeoB), but as that tribe doielj
8 Mtembles the Sheeraunees, I shidl proceed to describe the latter, re-
9 flecting whom I am better in^Mmied. I onist, however, notice, thai
10 the Zmurreea are aflowed to be exempt from the habits of npiae for
11 which the Sheeraunees are so renunkaUa
12 The Sheeraunees inhabit the mounttdns north of those of the
13 Zmurrees. Their country overloc^ that of the Bauboors and Mee-
14 aunkhails, and they have the Vueerees on the north ; their westem
15 boundary will be mentioned hereafter.
16 Great part of this country is occupied by the lofty mountain of
17 Tukliti Solimaun, and the hills which surround its base. Many parts
18 of it are nearly inaccessible; one of the roads is in some' plact s rut
19 out of the steep face of the hill, and in others supported by beams
20 inserted in the rock, and with all this labour, is still impracticable
21 for loaded bullocks.
22 The population is Roaften d in villages of from twenty to forty
23 houses, through the valleys and the lower parts of the mountains.
24 TTiey cut out the sites of their liouses in the slopes of the hills, so
25 that on three sides, the earth forms the lower part of the wall. Each
26 cottage contains but one room, and has only one entrance, wliich is
27 closed at night with a branch of a thorny tree. Even in winter they
28 have notliing to shut out the cuid j but sleep on black carpets, round
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