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2 ATCrnKZYEa
3 little land, it is not on it that they depend for subsistence. Their
4 flocks are kept in the range of Kfiojeh Amraun, and the hi^h coun-
5 try of Toba ; and their herds of camels in the sandy tract north-east
6 of Shoraubuk. They liave also many horses, so that you scarcely
7 ever meet an Atchikzve on foot.
8 Their Sirdar has more power than most of the Dooraunee chiefs ;
9 but even that power, with his utmost exeiUons, is not sufficient to
10 check the predatory spirit of his tribe. No traveller can enter their
11 country withoi^t being plundered, and they often make nightly exp&>
12 cUtiona into the lands of their neighbours tp steaL Skill in theft,
13 and hnlilnpiBS In robbery, are great qualitiea among them, and a great
14 deal of the convosation of the young men turns on the egplpits of
15 this kind which they have pecfonned, or projected. Their robberies,
16 however, are never aggravated by murder.
17 Their dress is like that of the pastoral Doorannees $ but in winter
18 they make theur whole dress, shirts, ttowsers, ct^s, and all, of
19 They live almost eatiiely on mutton or goat's flesh, lliey eat
20 little grain, and they have scarce any black cattle among them.
21 They wear their clothes unchanged for months, their beards un*
22 dipped, and their hair long and shaggy. They are very huEge and.
23 strong men.
24 Their manners are rou»;h and barbarous, but they are not quarrel-
25 some among t lu inselves. Their cudo;elling matches are fierce, wiien
26 they hn\c ihcm, but they arise in disputes about prop^:^, and uot
27 in high wordsi or offences to personal pride.
28 They are not hospitable, they ha\ e no mosques, and seldom pray,
29 or trouble themselves about religion; the few Moollahs they have,
30 say their Namaua at hmnei All tribes are load in their complaints
31 i^^iinst them, and the Boofannees win hardly acknowledge them ibr
32 danamon*
33 They are, however, excdlent soldien. The talents,< courage, and ,
34 fidditj of iheir late Sirdar, Goolistaon Ehaon, were long the st^^mt
35 of'^Shaiib ShqauV cause, m defence of whii;h he ^lost his fife i and
36 his justice and moderation are atill gratefully remembered hj the
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