1 HAZAUREHS.
2 spend A giMt desl of thdr time in sittiiig.in the house round a. ttorn
3 They we all great singers snd players on litB geatnt, and many <^
4 tFiern are poets. Lovers and their mistresses sing Terses to eadi
5 other of their own composing, and men ofteQ sit tot home iaUin|{ at
6 each other in extemporaneous satire.
7 Their amusements out of doors are liiintino;, shoot itur th^or, and
8 racing. They clear a spot of ground for the last mentioned amuse-
9 ment, and ride bare backed, the stake is often a great many sheep,
10 oxen, or suits of clothes. They also shoot at marks for similar wa^rs.
11 TTiey are all good archers and good shots : every man has a match-
12 k)ck. Their other arms are a Persian sword, a long narrow dagger
13 in a iroedeB aheatfa, and Bomathnea a spear.
14 The Haaaoteha are very passioniite^ and enseedingly fidde and
15 •capridoni. After omiciBating one for an hour, a single word majr
16 inake him iiy^autt and break with joa. Setting aside their hot. t«n- .
17 pers, thej are a good people^ merry, oonTersiblet good natnred* and
18 hoapitahla Many stones are told of their cortreme simpUd^. lit
19 is enon^ to mention tibat they believe tiie King of Caobnl to be as
20 Ugh as the tower of a castle : still, as they are Asiatiol^ they are not
21 ' exempt from habits of fiUadiood. Their irritable diipoaitian involves
22 them in constant broils among themselves. *
23 The Hazaurehs generally live in villages of from twenty to two
24 hundred houses, though some live in Tartar tents like the Eimauks.
25 Each village is defended by a hi j^h tower, capable oi' containing ten
26 or twelve men, and hill of lor>| i-holes. t
27 lliere is a kettle-drum in each, and in time of peace, a single man
28 remains in the tower, to sound an alarm ii' necessary. 1 have heard
29 * Hie A%hniwtaDiiM«yi«oil« of tLepoww cf ftidnarion p<^ss€d by MnesftlM
30 Hazaurehs, who rr.n mt mit thr livrr of any person on whom tliey fix their eyes. This
31 filble ii very common in bidia and Persia, and it attributed to Tarious tribe*. Th« d«-
32 Idb of the operation are given with grCMt taknuuty in the AycMi AdMtM;
33 t Tilfa boildiug ib called Ottopon^ or Ortopon^ iriii^
34 Modi*
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