1 406
2 SHOP&
3 . .Then are tin drthmo«t4i6iue0 fdjoi^^
4 butlfc €Kiod^.iii-.t|ie .ame manner, and dciiigned.' fiir tlie aheep and
5 eattler ftv ^ ^7* "tart giain, fitewoodf and hnplenmta of hnio
6 bandiy.' Moat boaaea have a little court-yard in finnt of lliedoory
7 idiere ihe fiimily often ait when the weather ia hot. The iwnn b
8 spread with GuDeema*, over which are some £altalar attingOBt
9 The villages are geneialfy aamunded with orchaida, containing ail
10 the fiuit treea.irf' finrope^ and nmnd them are scattered a itm nud-
11 heny tiees, poplars, planes, or other trees, of which the oonunonest
12 aiB one called Marandye^ and another tree, with broad lesvea, called
13 Purra. • '
14 Xhe sho|» in the Dooraunee villages are generally very few, and
15 are never kept by A%haun8. For instance, in the village of ^ulledee,
16 near Candahar, which consists of about two hundred houses, there are
17 three shops, where p:rain, sugar, and other eatables are sold ; one
18 fruit shop ; and one shop where knives, scissars, combs, looking
19 glasses, and such articles are to be had. Tliot c is a carpenter almost
20 in every village, as well as a blacksmith, and nomenmes a weaver or
21 two ; the nearer to the city, the fewer are the artisans. CioLhH are
22 made by the women, who sometimes abo weave blankets. There ia
23 at least one mosque in every Dooraunee villaf?e, and otiteu more , the
24 Moollah who reads prayers in it, receives a portion of grain trom
25 every man in the village, be^iides wiiat he emm by teaching children
26 to read. ' " '
27 In most villages, and generally in the square (where there is one),
28 ia a public apartment, when all the men of the village assemble to
29 convuffae apd ff—F'i* tfiemBalvea*
30 Hie dnef ooeupelian of aU the viDi^^ is agricaltnia Hiey tow
31 their great harveat (iHuch ia of wheaty barley, and aome other grains)
32 in November, and reap it early in Jnne,; anolher faamat, chiefly itf
33 * A kind of wodOm curpet without gmaialfy with dUlanatedM of
34 ndi «riridind«iid sonw otiwr colonr.
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