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2 PASTORAL TRIBES.
3 tlie 9tn» time th^ dl the peculiar virtues of those txSba wee pi»
4 8^ed ; and on the whole, die effect of this kind <^ govemm^ oe
5 the. people who live under it, appean to be mere ftvonnble then any
6 eae.we sluJl have to consider.
7 Tliough the kingdom has passed away from the Ghi^ies, it hag
8 still left it« traces, and the efibct of the ilbnner hi^ stations of dM
9 Ehauns b still observable among them ; it is not, however, sufficient
10 to prevent anarchy ; and a popular government seems gradually to be
11 forming, which will take the place of the old aristocracy in maintaiup
12 ing the public tninfmillity.
13 The principal iieature in which the Western Atghauns clitler Irora
14 the Eastern, is tbrmofl hy the niitnerous pastoral tribei^. These,
15 though they have all some co]iini<;ii points of resemblance, such as
16 their living in tents, and moving with tlie seasons, differ among them-
17 selves in other particulars which will appear in the details. The
18 difference ])rincipally relates to the distance between their summer
19 and winter stations, and to the degree in which they oomb^e agri-
20 culture with pasturage.
21 The suminLi station is called Eiiauk, anil ihc winter sialioii Kish^
22 laukf two words which both the Afghauns and Persians have borrowed
23 from the Tartars. The tents almost universally used among the
24 A%hauns are of a kind of black blanket, or rather of coarse black
25 camlet sucli as is used for the same purpose in the greater part of
26 Persia. It is caUed ISathdee in the A%haim language, SmM^auim
27 in Perrian* and Karraooee in Turkish: both c£ these laat phrasfli
28 mean ** black tents" the teem generatty given to themby Emupesnib
29 The tents of the tribes that move little are always hoger and better
30 than those of the very migratory people.
31 The latter have often fine tents which they leaive at the statioiis
32 wheie the climate is most severe* eanying h^idm ones on thdr jouw
33 neys to the plaoes wfaese dielter is less required.
34 It must not be inferred that all the Western A^^iauns are abep-
35 herds: on the oontnryy aldieai^ die space i^veni up to pestme mey
36 be mndi racne CKtensive than that cmj^oyed in agricnltmei yet the
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