1 JADRAUKS.
2 me miry be concieived* to- be wild and toMt, Thm arms an
3 gaMnDy ma> Afghadh' knife and a'ahieldt and every man caaniei a
4 fiftfAMiiA^ at the use of m^ildl tbqy are very expert. Hi^ oim
5 oomtiy aAnds materiah fer these arma; it aboanda in inm oic^
6 wfaiah the Viseeraes work up into anns> and export to the pkina.
7 Their are hangh^t and their vmoes knd* diatlnrt» and oom- •
8 mending I 'but they are gentle and good tempered in (heir interooone
9 with their gneate, and with each other. Siudi ia their veracilj» that
10 if there is a dispute about a stray goat, and one partjr willsay it is
11 hia> and oonfem his assertioii by stroaking his beavd* the odier in-
12 atantly givea it up, without suspicion of fraud.
13 Their amusements are listening to songs (for they never deign to
14 sing themselves), and dancing a sort of i^rirluc dance, in which they
15 go tfarou^ some warlike attitudes, and leap about flourialiing their
16 awotds.
17 The food of the Vizeerees is the flesh of sheep, oxen, or
18 which they eat half raw, with czoot and unleayened bread of the wont
19 description.
20 The women are not required to labour, lliey wear a long; thick
21 shift of red cotton, with sandals like the men, and have as many gold
22 and silver ornaments as their husbands can afford. A most ext raor-
23 dinary custom is said to prevail anK>ng them, which gives tlie women
24 the choice of their husbands. II' a woman is pleased with a man,
25 she sends the drummer of the camp io pin a handkerchief on his cap,
26 wIlIi a ]iin which she has used to fasten her hair. The (huiiiirier
27 watches his ojipoi t unity, and does this in public, naming the woman,
28 and the man iii^ i in mediately obliged to marry her, if he can pay her
29 price to her father.
30 The Jadrauns have the \ izeciccb on the east, the ivliarotee.^, and
31 the country dependent on Ghuznee on the west, and the Jaujees on
32 tiie north. Their dress and manners are said to be like those of the
33 Vkeereeb Towards the Kborrum, they cultivate some of the in>
34 firior sorts of gram, but towaids the Kfaamtees, they winder with
35 their goato, throu|^ the tiikk pine fimsfc^ and aie (aa • Klittotea
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