1 446 EMPLOYMENT OF THE PASTORAL KHAROTEES.
2 «r them only contains 500 houses. Thej taUKOA io fiOOO or fOOO
3 fliinilies, mott of whom follow agriculture. ' ' ,
4 Tbeir oonntiy, tlioagh ridier than .£«ttawauz, pRydbioal but ime
5 haivest in the year, and is buried in snow for three months evety
6 winter. They have bullocks for the plough, but the nature of their
7 country makes them prefer goats to sheep for the remainiiig pari flf
8 thoir stock, vet thev have many rnmcls in the plains.
9 in most particulars they rcsiMublc the- soiuhern Solirnauii Kliail,
10 but the whole clan is united undci- the coinnuiiu] ot' the hereditary
11 Khaun, who ha** respect and weight, thoiitrh httle or no power. The
12 Mulliks of villages are eqiifiUy weak ; but, as men are obliged to
13 Kuhmit their quarrels to a Jeirga, their want of power is not so much
14 felt. One fact is alleged of them on good authority, which is so
15 much at variance with the practice of the Afghauns, that i am almost
16 indined to doubt its accuracy. It is, that they pay more attention to
17 weahli and popularity than to birth, in the electioa of a Mullik. I
18 M-disoover nbthing in tihe sitnatfon of ■tlB» Kharoleei to acboniit fiv
19 lllll'imiMdal nflH^Mt <lf JlCMditary superiority. ^ .
20 They «m n&m at war wilih tfaeir mde ndghboiii* tba Yimtgem
21 and Jadramw^- and abo witli die Foomioolleai^ who are pnbaUf
22 s&ndi more omlised tliaii tliemadkea. ' In this last war* winch wit
23 ooeaakmed by mutual moden, they gire vo quarter: ** Oiir wai^**
24 aftid a Kharote% ** ia not for poWBr» aor for ^ory, but fix blood.**
25 The climate compels the Kharotees to be entirelj idle in winter :
26 even their fire-wood ia atored befiwe the end of aatarnn* and their
27 only business is to clear away the auovr fiom tbeir roofib or to make
28 roads through it from house to hooie. Hie poorer Kharateeib iHio
29 cannot afibrd four months of idleness, are driven to warmer climates,
30 and carry with them the greatest part of the bullocks and camels of
31 the tribe. They only go as far as the sottthcm valley of tlie Gomul*
32 and return in spring to their own country ; Init upwards of three
33 hundred iiamilies have renouiu cd their share in the land, and have
34 becpme as thorough wanderers as the Nasaees. This haa taken place
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