1 .460 ckviasa of theib waamiQ a free government.
2 feed such a number of animals : their tents are siu.ill aiul Hjl;IiL : tlieit
3 whole property ib a suit or two of clothes, a lew sacks of iiour, witli
4 half' a. dozen earthen poU, and one or two of brass.
5 Their dress i.h between those of the cast, and the west ; but their
6 loose white turban seems to make it most resemble the former. <
7 In their persons they are small, black, and ugly : they ne buha>
8 nous m their .manners, toad rude and squalid in th^ general i^pear*
9 ■
10 lliey are,, holrerer, a ranarkably honest and harmless people.
11 They an lecbmed . to amount. DD 12,000 ftnufies. Tbeirgo«eni»
12 mcnt leaemfolea thait of die independent tribes, a dNumstnesr idncb
13 at fitist exeitea aome suiprise in a people entirely pastoral ; but nbasb
14 is perfwpa to be aooounted iixr by tbe peeuliartey of thssr sitnatieni
15 The eSbiBt of peatomJ habita in inlzoducing despotic pow, haa'lq^g
16 been observed by writers on tbe bistoiy oif human society, and dwir
17 opimons have been strengthened by the example of almost aU the
18 tribes of ancient Sc^thia and modem Tartaiy $ but thia ebeervadoOi
19 and the reasonings of the authors who support it, appear to be
20 derived from the practice of countries entirely pastoral, inhabited fay
21 aeteral distinct and indepmdent liationA, where the simultaneous
22 increase of the flocks 'of diiSerent tribes baaipeb.eadi to extend its
23 limits, and leads to wars, which oblige each tribe to encamp and
24 march in a body, and to secure the co-operetioii of all its parts by
25 implicit sTihmission to a common head. These reasons do not exist
26 in ft tribe ji laced in a kingdom chiefly inhabited by hiisbanclinr n, nnd
27 fet diiio; its flocks on waste laiuls at a ilij>tance from liiose adapted
28 to agriculture ; and for this n ason perhaps it is that we find the
29 Naussers enjoving the same lil)erty as most of the other Afghauns.
30 The established government, and the habits of the nation secure their
31 peace, so that when stationary they scatter over an extensive tract,
32 according to the inclination of ^ich individual, and live almost entirely
33 free from the restraint of govienunent, while the temporary appoiutmeot
34 of a liaiciwashtee ia aofieiint to providefer llie otd^
35 mudiM 'Che actual sitwrtion of the chief of tbaKanssen afpeaa to
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