1 BASOM OF IBB AIIBISTAlTBm 4S1
2 Ghiljie Kings. It is, however, a place ol' no strength, and is sur*
3 rounded by black tents, with a few houses. It stands in a small
4 district called Ghwurra Murgha ; wliich is divided by hills from the
5 valley of the Urghessauji, into whicli the stream that pabses Keilace
6 Abdooreeheem, Devertheless makes its way.
7 The GhOjie cmmtiy to the wMStk of kdtode SSf, oonaiflti ddsAj
8 of MBdy plans» and hi^ stony tracts* Of .hmea hUls : Uiat is the
9 Booth cesti near die junction of the Cpoodoofr and the Gomult is of
10 the last description ; but iheiei in the midst .of - lofty and inaccessible
11 mountainat ta the little TaHoj of Mammyet where Abdooredbeon
12 Khann (the heed of the GhlQies* and their King dining the rebdr
13 Uoa)f has found a aeouie retreat from the real or imagined resent-
14 ment of the Dooi-aimee government. It is inhabited by diqdieida in
15 tents, but Abdooreheem has founded » fort* and is making a gaideds
16 and, perhaps, introducing agriculture.
17 From the meridian of Mookoor, to the hills on the right bank of
18 the Gomul, and from Ghwashta to Ghuznee, is the bason of the
19 Aubistaudeh, an open country of varioxis fertility, and in different
20 states of iropro% i ll 1011 ( : the districts of Mookoor, Karrabangh, and
21 Nannee, to thti west ol Ghuznee, are naturally unfertile, and thinly
22 inhabiteil : the testimony of the natives assigns one iiuiulrcU and
23 twenty forts, or castles, to Mookoor, and one hundred to Karra-
24 baugh ; and, as almost every village in the Ghiljie country is a fort,
25 and none in this, part contains motre than fire o^ six, froiiiieSf the
26 eocount ia piofaafaAy conecL
27 The ooimtry to the atnith of these distndai, and thet called Entti^
28 muOf irtoA eKtends Scoot 6hwashta» to within twenty miles of
29 Glwi«nee> are open* partially cnkiTated, 'and waterad by jCaiueeie«»
30 and by smne bvooki that nm into the Anbutsudeh. The benders of
31 that lake are covered with low tamarisk^ and a plane tree, a poplar,
32 or a wiUow, may be found here and there near a Cahrees} but there
33 is no natural wood, and the country is naked and uniform.
34 Divided from this tract by the Gonial, and the kills on its tight
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