1 shepherd for that of a husbandman, but never return frofn an agri-
2 cultural to a pastoral life. 'J'lie few shepherds of the Kalunder Kliail»
3 however, furnish an example to the contrai \ . The uncle of a man
4 from whom I had the story, was possessed ot land in Kuttawauz, hut
5 he married into a pastoral family, and being struck with the pleasuren
6 of a wandering life, he laid out a sum of money he had gained by
7 some madder which he had cultivated, on the purchase of aheep,
8 and joined the moving horde with which he was connected. The
9 pleasures which seduced huii, must seem great even to the husband-
10 ineU) for those of the Kalunder Khail, at least, annually betake
11 themselTes to the imitatkm <€ m pastoral life. Every summer they,
12 pitdb their teato at fome diatanoe fiom tbe fi»t» wliidi ia aa a&tifely
13 ftbandooed that tlie gptea aie lodced: they lemain in .tento during
14 the whole of the saminer, movmg OGGaabDaQy within a moderate
15 ifMoe-roiind their iotU The enjoymeata of this aeaaon .are great/'
16 (aaja one of my infiwrnanta) **biit its pleaaurea are equalled, if not
17 aurpaased, by the idloaeas and repoee of wintw." Besidea the ahcp-
18 hetda who only move to the Gomtdf there axe others who prolong
19 their march to Damaun. These are joined by merchants from the
20 fixed iiAabittfnts, and the whole number is ooosiderible. Such are
21 the mann^ of the inhabitants of Kuttawauz, and probably of the
22 Alizyes of ZooTmool, the Suhauks of Khurwaur, and of all the
23 southern Solimaim Khail: but the interposition o£ the village in
24 checking disturbances is more marked in many divisions, and in some
25 they even compel the parties to submit to a Jeirga, or to quit the
26 villnm'. In some clans too, the form of government is more decidedly
27 republican, and the sentiments ot t ry individual must be taken
28 before any measure ot importance is decide<l on.
29 This is the case among the Ahmedzyes who possess the east of
30 Logur, find all the southern part of the valley of tlie Caubul river as far
31 as JeilallnbiKl. Yet as they are in perfect obedience to the King, the
32 Khaun of the whole division, who is the representative of the sove-
33 reign, has much more influence than among the southern Sollmaun
34 Khail» and the whole division, ^ough it consists of 12,000 ftmiliest
35 looks up to him aa its head in all cases.
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