1 ■466 HAZAUKEHS.
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3 my government at all. They have wars with the Himauks, and also
4 idth Kiliich Ally Khaun, the great Uzbek chief in Bulkh, who 1ms
5 Teduced many of the nearest Hazaurehs under his authority.
6 The Hazaurehs are all enthusiastic followers of Ali ; they hold
7 the Ato;hauns, Eimauks, and Uzbeks in dotestsftion, for foUowmg'the
8 opposit<^ sect^ and they insult, it they do not persecute, every Soonnec
9 who enters their country. They even distrust such oi' their own
10 countrymen a^s have been much among the A^g^uns, suspecting
11 them of having been corrupted.* ' ■ !
12 When this is considered, it is not sui |H i.sing that there should be
13 no Tuujiktf settled among the Hazaurehs, and tliat they should have
14 IHde tnMle or inteitxMicte with the Mt cf mankind The little trade
15 4bey hsve^ ur moM. oa ib^ bartir : Migpr and rtlt are the fcfei|^
16 comipoditiei in- miMt xequcit - ...
17 ■ -Tba abm Mcoimt of the Haauvebs te^iiot.willioat tm/p^mu,
18 govenmunta like the Afjjpianns, par-
19 tidtilariy the laigs tiUie of Gufiee^ wMsh » acttkd tomida HMoo
20 Coddh, and which, peKhapa» dlfifats -fiKmi the reat is aome otfier par-
21 ticidm The pbina about MooUcea, Sanm Bauf^ &e. to the w«it
22 of Ghuznee, are inhabited by.Uaeaurdu* who in their situatiaa, and
23 in every thing but'theii features, exactly resemble Taujiks.
24 There are many Haaanrehs in Caubul ; five hundr^ ase in the
25 King's giuird, the icstvigain their braad by their laboori many of
26 tliem are muleteers.
27 Tt is clitHcult to tjness tlto tmiuber of the Hazaurehs: tiieir couatrj-
28 is consiilerably more extensi\ ( than that oi the J^imauks, but it is
29 less productive, and worse peopled ; so that I shoidtl not suppose
30 they amounted to more than firom three hundred to three hundrud
31 and iiiiy thousand souls. .' - ^
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33 • KenemwhownpiCMntodiBFIateXIL lOaMymwM convwtod, «nd «l.Us t«aani
34 to tVie Huzaureh country, he was treated wttli the utmost contempt : his oim nbt^TT
35 called bim • bo|^" and never sddNMcd him but with ** SnggMii,". O dog. . ^ .
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