1 400 THB KTO CMIBF.
2 iOf another ; and some ooimtrlesi as the Gunnseer, and the oountry
3 MMind Oandahar> ate inhabilwd by alnoat all (ha dans ianmdjtpA
4 ptoporUons..
5 Th^ whole population of the Dooraunee country may safely he
6 estimated at 800,000 souls. It may perhaps approach to a millicm,
7 but on such subjects it is difficult to speak with confidenre. The
8 Doorauneen themselves must be reckoned considerably more than
9 half. It is universallv asserted that Naudir Shauh numbered the
10 tribe, w hen he was fixing their lands atid the proportion ot men \hey
11 were to tbrnish, and found them to consist of sixty thousand tanuiies j
12 but, su]>}K)sing such a census to have been made, it must have fallen
13 much under the real n\imber8. as maiiv persons of the shepherds
14 especially* must have Ik en ()\ ei looked. The Dooraunues have cer-
15 tainly been in a flouiishijig hiiii:itit)u since tliat tim^ -and their cir-
16 cumstances have been very fa\ oriible to the increase of their populm-
17 tion ; so that the number ot 100,000 ikmilies must now be cousidered
18 as within bounds, ' ' * • ' • • • • . " ■
19 The government of the Doorauuees diflSmti widely fircmi that of the
20 repubUcan tribes I luMnB-alKady deacribe3»-4hoiigli<it.ia efvident that
21 it hu originally been framed on the auBom modd^ - . .
22 ' "Shd diflhrfiiff Beems chiiifly to ht oooMiomd hyttuk amao iinin^
23 diateommeotidiiof the Dooianmeei with the dagyandbsnthemilitHj
24 taiiaeonwhidhtli^hddttifiirlsiidi. Hie- King ii die beieditarf
25 dnef of the'tribe^ mid tliif dwamrtance deriw|iecdin' importaabe
26 fiom die TeneratlifNi in iriuch the DooTwmoM hold! -the. homo af
27 Saddosye^ He h alio dieir milifeii^ oommanilB'f' nd .diat nuwe
28 eflbctually is die im^ in the odisr tribei# - Wiflii fhteo 1m_ die
29 miliCaiy aernoe ivMdi di^ owe totlie enwn u an inncvation» intio>
30 ddeed after diey- had eeeiqilid thdr Indsy ivMoh d^
31 or brought tmder cMldvation without aid fion anj estemal.po'wa*
32 and without an aclmowledgpiient of dependence oa utympmor : bat
33 the landa oS the Dooraunees were actually given to them oD OonditMNi
34 ef milkaiy secvioB^ end the principal foundation of their nfftt to die
35 poMtwion la a gnnt of the King* ' whole of their oam eooiilrjr
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