1 lCAUKO€)S ASD KttOUOAUNEES. ^
2 They are now under a separate chief, and entirely unoomiected with
3 the clan from which they spring. They inhabit the range of Khojell
4 Amraun, from the Lora to the Cuddenye, together with some of the
5 ■adjoining plains, anrl nre the wildest of the Doorauneea : theit only
6 employments are pasturage and plunder.
7 The Noorzyes arr finally numerous with the Baurikzyes ; hut. as
8 thpY are scattered through the hills in the west, and the desert tract
9 in the south, of the Dooraunee comitry, they by no means make so
10 great a figure in the Af'o;haun nation. They are however a martial
11 tribe, and those on the irontier towards Seestaun find constant exer-
12 cise for tlieir courage and enterprize in the mutual depredations in
13 which thev are engaged with tlie Beloche borderers. Almost the
14 whole ot them are shepherds, who spend the winter in tiie grassy
15 apots which are found in the barren region they inhabit, and who
16 xcitife in the middle of sprmg to SeeahlNiiid.
17 Hie iUis^M inhabit Zemeendawer* and are moatly agricoHitiat
18 TSielr nmnbefB are rated at fifteen tlxNuaiid ^im^'lT^fT
19 Hie Alekkosyea aro only ten duMuaiid finnilies. In their ooufitiy
20 end habits, tfa£y resemble the dan last mentioiied, fiNmi whtdi tiiej
21 are sei»aiated by tihe HdmundL
22 The Isfchankhgyes live between Zemeendawer and the desart, and
23 i^eir eountiy abaras the dtanfiters of those on which it bordeft;
24 being hilly mA fertile on the nordi» and flat and banen «i the smiths
25 Hie people are employed in equal munbras on agricidtuFe' and
26 pasturage. Thsir numbers are shout tan thousand finnilies.
27 The Maukoos and Khougaunees are small dana, who have n<i
28 distinct lands, many live at Candahar, and some are mixed with the
29 Koorsyes. They used to have separate chiefi^ but none have been
30 appointed since the commem^ment of the present troubles in die
31 state, and the clans are likely soon to be extinguished.
32 Though the lands allotted to the Dooraimee clans are separated
33 and defined an above describetl, the clans bv no :ncrins live unmixed
34 with eac h other, like different trib^; on the contrai v, meTi <>( une
35 dm tieqaeatXy acquire lands by purchase or by gxiuiUt in the midst^
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