1 LOOtt OOVIRMIICMT APPAREVT.
2 cracy has Men Inth U; «ad though it has left atokuiMBte nspecfe
3 Itt dike mild* of Che eonuiion people, yet that iM^^
4 mixed wkh feer, tli«t it hes no eflbcfc friMte?«r iii oeotnillliig thdr
5 actkne. No Khnin'of « tribe» «r.HiiI]ik of a viUage^ enrw inberfsMe
6 aeaniagifltniCetoseUle adisfNit^ oratleaaliaBerioueoihes dMgrkoep
7 their own fiutojUes Aid their inmiediate dependento in ofder, but
8 the rest (if the people to aoooomiodaM iheir dU&lcQcce ae thej
9 .caiL This may be preaumed not to lui?e been al«ni}is.the case;
10 •caiiae it has not yet generally produced the compulsory trial far^ a
11 leeigii (or assembly of elders) which subsists among the Berdooran^
12 nee8» so long habitilated to strife; neither has it exasperated the
13 tempers, nor embittered the enmitiea of the Ghiljie^ as it has with
14 the people just mc'ntit)iicd.
15 The degree in wiucix this want of cjoveriiment is felt is not the
16 same (hronijhout the tribe; amimg ilio }ie(>|)!e round Ghuznee and
17 Cauhui, the j)Ower of the King 8 governor supplies the place of in-
18 ternal rep;iilation. In many tribes more distant from cities, the neigh-
19 bourhood of one of the King's Cauzees, or the deputy of that
20 magiiilrate, induces one party to have recourse to the Shirra, (oir
21 Mahommedan law] an i^ppeal iHiich no Mussulman can decline.
22 With the Hotnkees, the Tokhees, and generally with the Ghiljies
23 on the great roads^ the authority whidk. the chiefi derive fiom the
24 Dooraonee govenmient* and perhaps the reapect atiU pud to their
25 jfimner zanky enables them to .prevent general 'My^nnrfiflmii thouf^
26 Ahey cannot suppress, qoaneb between individnalsi but among £e
27 aoutheia SoUmaun Khail, these disocden rise to&uds betweoi sulv
28 '^▼isions of a clan» and e?en to oontests of sudi eKtint as to deacrve
29 the name of civil wars : yet. even in the most unsettled tribes, IMb
30 decision of an assembly of MooUas- is sufficient to decide disputes
31 |d)OUtpiopevty» and pne great source of quarrels is thus removed.
32 Among the eastern Ghiljies, and especially among the SoIimMU
33 Khails, the power of the chief is not considerable enough to form a
34 tie to keep the clan together, and they are broken into little societies,
35 (like the Kusoizyes) which ue.^uite independent in ail jFA^emal tjua^
36 10
37 Digitized by Googl