1 OOVERKMENT OF THE TRIBE.
2 Hie ShflMpsws (6000 ftmilies) are mixed with the Tairjik0*i]i flie
3 Cohdammi) and along the northern bonk of the Caubul river, aa tit
4 as the eastern border of the Ghiljies. They are said to be the super-
5 flnnn<4 population of the other claoa whidi emigrated fponi Candtthir
6 long lirlorc tlie rest oi ilie tribe.
7 Tlic Ghiijies of the west, as far nearly as to tin moridian of Ghuss-
8 nee, l>ear a close resemblance to the D<j()raunees. This rej^etnhlance
9 diminishes as we go eastward. The Hotnki t's and Tokhces, in (iress,
10 manners, and customs, and in even' thuig which is not connected
11 with their mode of government, exactly resemble the neighbouring
12 Dooraimees. The Turrukees, though more similar to the Doorau-
13 umb dwi to muf «di«r laribe, mix aomething of the manners of the
14 «Mleni Ghiljies i and diia moit in tho aoi^em part of Tamtfcee
15 mmtry. llie Uikkn nMOibke the eaatem cbais In efery dung liut
16 iJmr gownunent* ■
17 ■■< .The OMtem Ghiiglei diflSer wiAAy from tlie Dooraimeea, add will
18 -leqiiife a aapinte dlacuaribii* Hiqr oi'eD difliMr among themadveii
19 llHMeaiRMBd Canbid bearing biit a iflligbt MaemUaiioe to thdaemtli^
20 south, butrthdie ate some points in which the whole tribe diflEbn flom
21 the Dooraunees, and which I shall state befoio I proceed to the par-
22 tial diversities I have bcsea alluding to.
23 The internal government of the Ghiljies is oitir^y different ii-om
24 tint of the Dooraunees. The chiefs of the former have now lost the
25 authority which thov possessed under tin ir own vnvnl government.
26 There is great reason to doubt whether liiat autlioi ity ever was so
27 extensive, as that which has been introduced among the Dooraunees
28 on the Persian model. It is more probable that the power even of
29 the King of the Ghiljies* was small in his own country, and that the
30 tumultuiu V roil sent of the people to support hia measures abroad,
31 was dictated more by a sense of the interest and glory of the tribe,
32 than by any del'erence to the King's commands. Some appearuices,
33 however, warrant a supposition that hia power was sufficient to ditek
34 mvfders ilnd odier great cHsorders.^ Whatever the power of the King
35 may hove been ibfmerljr, it is now at en end, and that of the aasto*