1 TAVS,
2 now applied t.Viemselves with industry and success to liusbandry, taiA
3 have adoptcvi t he dress and manners of the people <>1 Seestaun.
4 ■ The noiriinal chief of all Seestaun is IVXulUk Biihraun Kjaunee,
5 'who is de&eendied (or reputed to be descended) from the ancient
6 house of Ky, which reigned long over Penda, produced Cyrus and
7 other great monarchsy and tenninated in., the death of Dariu», aud
8 the subveEUon of hSk mapia» bgr tlie 'GrMn ' JAuUik Behraun is
9 very sokailile of tfas gloiy of i6 lUiwtrioiiitft dMCtot : Iwinini ■—iiiiiii
10 the. title of'SSng, and TiMiwtdlhB, xni a. anMll scales the Mt^M^Sum
11 ql^ioyaltyrj iMt faia aaiOiority la (ml; lecogniMd m a..iiiiill j^.tf
12 SiiBilMiii» ml- hjanMa fioceltiwaidcr a tfadnaandinflB.', Hia capital
13 ia-caDed JelUlalMd. ' iLM dooteuia ii ism ibodaalid khditelai
14 'biit the rtiiiii widoh auiiiMuid it^ifiv * wMt'Sxteiitv bato wltneaato.to
15 ^ormel; grandeur. .. : \. .
16 The family have had a short gl^im of prosperity at JDO TOejir feifcetB
17 period. The head of it, Mullik:Mahniiiod» raBe'iiito.|pteat .liaties
18 in the beginning of Naudir &3iauh*s career, and atiqniMd. ptfueflaicii
19 of the greater part, if not the whole, of Khoraissaun.: He was at last
20 defeated and put to death by Naudir Shauh, who reduced the whole
21 of Seestaun, and who appears to hnve transferred the government to
22 a Ijiother or a cousin of JMahmood. Solimann who was chiei in
23 the time of Ahmed Shauh, submitted to the Dooraunees, and gave
24 his daughter to their King. The Kyaun^s have since paid a
25 Ught tribute, and lunnshed a contingent to the King of Caubul,
26 but it has sometimes been necessary to enforce the performance of
27 thflae Acts of § ubiiiiaai6ik > Xheore was a body bf Seestauneob at
28 Mbswet im IMO^ eotmnaiidBd by MiiDifc Mabmood* » giai|d«in'af
29 the frrnena prince iviioas nanM* be faoaon . .
30 : I hatve not heard what idbtioiiMiillik Behraott baava- to fM-
31 ma^t''ga^fmamit,.>tm^^epb ihafc Crinoe QHumiiM la nMHsned tothia
32 da«g|b»b lheEFteriaB8raiMd»piiatfliidth«the.bBi^^
33 'JSmg> Icatinathata»d»<pq|ectiiiie.^dttpq[^^
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