1 BULKH. iffj
2 torn tlieif weJtli. • In like minner, in^mnjt emy thfngdgpfpdi
3 on tbe appoinbiMnft of die govmnent* We find MeengbaudieeB,
4 fiwbnidmsy Cbora^ausees (oommanders of* thonimnd, of an fam^
5 dvedt sod of ton),- wUdi ahem that the division of the army is atbi*
6 traryf and does not proceed on the .principle. of leaving the ooii>
7 tingent of each tribe, clan, <xt fUhga, under its hereditary chie£
8 In BoUunira, indeed, the men are said to be told off into mesMa
9 of ten each, who hare a tent, a boiler, and a camel between them,
10 an arranfrement in %vhich it is evident that neither &iiuly OCMUiec^ion
11 nor individual irettlnin are a( iili regarded.
12 The Ulima, or members of the church, alone possess any influ-
13 enc e not derived from the government, but their weight id very
14 COiKsitit-rable.
15 The Uzbeks had probably few \;d.w3 or institutions of their own at
16 the time of their conversion to I&laum, for they have adopted the
17 provisions of the Mehomedan system in ite ntnuMt .detail, applying
18 it to emy part of their drril govenuoent* end even of their piivele
19 ccMtdnct' lliereveunejaooQectodexact^indiepropofrtiom
20 in the Koniui> and one4Gnth of its prodnce is applied to afana.
21 Joitioe h adminiBtand faj tiie Eaoaee in atiict oonfiinnilj to the
22 Shhrm'; mii drinking wine* or evm amalcing tobeooo, is aa itricdy
23 feibiddaB> and ahnost aa severely ponished, aa fraud or robbery. The
24 B3ng of Bokhaura*8 title a CSommandei of tie F itliful ; part of every
25 day is Ipcnt by him in teaching the Mahomedan religioOi and the
26 giiesler part c£ every ni^ in prayers and -ngi^ The same Kng ■
27 reads prayers in his own mosque, and often performs the funeral ser-
28 vice even for people of low rank ; and Killich Ally Be<T^, the present
29 ruler of Bulkh. always walks in the street; lost, if he rodO} his feet
30 might be hi</ber than the heads of other tnn^ l>elievei^.
31 TIk' ^^n-dt tliffbreueo between ( he ^o\ eriinient of the Uzbeks, and
32 that of tlie Atghauns, affords u tield i'>i sjieculation w lueh could
33 scarcely fail to be instructive r my inlbruuilion is too incomplete to
34 allow ot my attempting to accouni tor it, even il 1 were otherwise
35 qualifi^ for such a task. It may, hpwever, be observed that the
36 8e«