1 WESTERN CAUKEKa
2 lull snd EMte OMifcitB.
3 Hie hills through all the Couker countiy are appnpiiatadto thfl
4 numercKiis thefdiMpdai aadthoBe to the of the countij, to often
5 ■Uiided to, o(»itain many villerfB and little jpAakoB, of viliidi some aie
6 wdl cnltnrated, but most are occupied fay purtntal campa.
7 In so large a tribe as the Caukers, we can scarce expect unifomiity
8 of manners, and the le«^H ho ns they are divided into at least ten
9 cJans, many ot which are a^iain hroken into numberless intlepLiident
10 •^ocietie'? ; and there is no eitiaent chief of the whole tribe. The
11 Cnukers of Hurshoic so closely resem hie the Tereens, that it is un-
12 necessary to make any turtiier observation concerning them ; but no
13 other part of the tribe that I know, In ars an exact resemblance to
14 any of these which have been described ; an accomit of a district m
15 the w^t, and another of one in the east, with some observations on
16 tkeilntemedHite*''GlaBi} will, howevec, fflve a swilcicftf. idea . of .their
17 Cuachogjhty M anmowTilley.hk tfaeweitam &oe of tfwmonn*
18 tMD pf Kond. ; Hie 8oilJflibtile» and'in OMMt ptfta well onll'mnlid
19 b spring, the ^olB.Ta]k>^.ud.die 'iMyohsiiig U]k.nBe' gnoi^ ad
20 eofterad with ilowen^ and the mhabHaato ara hanfy emftkijrad till
21 4he end of aatn^nn> in the .cultivatioB of .two haiumlB, ttni In iho
22 dure of ^eir ^leep and eattle ; but in winter a final of three months,
23 and an occasional fortn^ht of motri oUige ihcin to ^■F^'f^y in tha
24 Vtual idleness of the season.
25 ' ^'flhe little valley of Ciuichogbye by degrees expands ta ftlMttsider-^
26 able extent, and stretches towards the south-west, for upwards of
27 thirty miles. The wide part of the valley (which is no longer called
28 by its original name), contains some villages of forty or fifVy houses,
29 round which there is a (tood deal of cnhivation ; but the greater p^t
30 q£ it is occupied by fehe[)iierds and tiieir tlocks.
31 All the inhabitants ibrni part of the clan of Sunnateea, the pos-
32 sessitms ot which extend along the western frontier of the Cankers,
33 ifom Zawura to Seeoona Daugb< This large division is under one
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