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2 within no loi^ period of tliii% Mid some of the first sb^herdfl are
3 still alive. The Kharotees account for the change very rationally.
4 Their fields (they say) are so closely hemmed in by steep mountains
5 that it is impossible for them to extend their cultivation, nor does
6 the deep shade of the pines with which the mountains are covered,
7 permit the growth of any herbage which might maintain their tioeks.
8 The natural increase t^f their population, therefore, reduced them to
9 distress. The lands oi' t^iich pt^riou were divuied, according to the
10 Mahoiniuedan law, among liis sons, and the portion which fell lo the
11 siuure of each was soon too small to maintain a man. Many, there*
12 £ire, jibaadoned thflirtlaiid to their tarodiers, and betooik tfatawdyqi
13 topMtuEige. TheyHa^unftf aoeoiniectiqn«ith.theftHii>y oftfa>
14 EhmtABimthey spmA tfae mmt&r m Thmtm mad tfae inimAgr nter
15 Gfaimee's hnt theb aeponttioii la too Inemt to luvtt brakan the ties
16 idudi-lxNiiid tliem to their ebni thefttOl edmowledfelhoconuiiflii
17 Kbeiin of the Khuoteeib and when thcj pew their jietiTe oountrf
18 hi their mmatl vugntiaoBf their relatioiui aHenDble andbrii^ ihem
19 faenri^ the seeds of the Jel|^Kiowgh piiie» and other piodnce of .Ae
20 mountaioa, for ndndi'tiie^hflpheidi. make vetimw m Utde peesenta
21 fiom Bamaun. The menners of these shepherds exactly reflemblo
22 litume of the Nassees, which I shall soon deaeribOf hirt thc^ are eran
23 ■iore destitute of all the comforts of life. *
24 A few words win suffice for the Wurduks. I have mentioned that
25 they are bounded on the west by the Paropomisan mountains, and on
26 the other three sities by the Ghiljies. Their country is a long hollow
27 between the hills (v hich separate them trom Logur ami Khunvar),
28 and the Paropamisan unniutaiiis, the latter are penetrateti by boiue
29 deep valleys also belonging to the Wurduks. The river, inaccurately
30 named from from CFhuznee. rises in the south of their lands, and runs
31 tiirougli the centre for the whole ot tiic ir cxicnt.
32 The \\ urduks are ail agricultural. They are a quiet, sober people,
33 • It w CM «r dm cnyi liUcft b dmrilMd in Ihe fliiralh^
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