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3 times obliged to go round the camp, and nottn the i i»lfftiillifn of
4 inhabitants himself, but* tfaoi^ l|» liM .dfteD Imdnmvtfr be ;i
5 ChristiaOff .and all times musk have bean a foreigner of a ver^
6 singular appearance and behaviour, he never met with a refusal c«"a
7 taunt, and nobody ever shewed a disposition to laugh at the ofidne«?s
8 of his appearance. Nor did this proee<M? from duiuess or want of
9 obser\'ation. for, on the same occasions, the very women used to
10 question him about his tzftTd^ and .to .shew great curioaky, about
11 India and the English.
12 It is strange that the next quality of the Dooraune^ I have to
13 mention, should be their love of rapine, but of that dei'ect they are
14 l«8s guilty tium most other tribea. Afanort.aU the people I beveooiii*
15 Tenod wkbf ley that mnie diem plunder the ioed% eicept the
16 Atduksyesy and aome km •mtfbAm yiho talce adventage of tronUed
17 timet,' to molest tnrvellefSj but some acoonmta of good eiiliioKiiy»
18 CGHtiadict tbeae atetementa. I diink it j^nobeUe thi* tlie people of
19 tihoae pects of the countiy which axe ent df aiii^t of the^gomnnieB^
20 are always addicted to lobbeiy* and that during dvil war, the tNun^
21 ber of these raanuidfflfs is greatly increased. It ought also to be
22 obaervedy that durbg troubled times the eserdae of private revenge,
23 and aH other disorders, subsist, with greater dumoe of impunity, and,
24 therefore, to a greater extent, than when the government ia settled.
25 In short, tlieir virtues and vices are those of their country, and they
26 appear to have more of the £rst» and iewer of the last, thafi any other
27 tribe.
28 The Dooraunees are distingiiisheii from the other Afgliauns by
29 their consciousness of superiority, combined with a sense of
30 national dignity, whicli gives them more 5?pirit, < oui ;iiTe, and eleva-
31 tion of dunacfeer than the other tribe.s, at ll»e same time that it
32 nDders th^ behaviour more liberal and humanized. They are ex»
33 tremely attached to their ooimtiy, and have a sort of feveenae ftr
34 Candahar, which they aey oontama the tomhs of their mioeatKna; the
35 bodies of their greet men are csnied thither to be buried, evenfimn
36 GMhmecrand Sind. Th^ tiasel little, and ahvays long to ntoni
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