1 584 DAWATULLUB, OE VOLUmiSEB& *
2 From the smallness ot" their pay, it is found difficult to get volun-
3 teers lor ttus service, and compulsion is almost always resorted to.
4 For this reason, it is only anionf^ the tribes about great towns, or on
5 the roads made use of by armies, that the Eeljanree can be raised.
6 As in most cases they cannot be kept long togetlier, or carried to any
7 distance from their own neighbourhood, the King makes little use of
8 dii« fiwoe. Hie Haakimft of provinoef fiequentljr Mionble die Ed-
9 Janree^ whidi* indeed, is in geneind ihe onlj detcnpUoo of troops
10 diey have to depend on. The Eeljamee of Peshawer hea, however^
11 been levend times odled out by the Kingi particulsrlj on «Q eoqpedi-
12 tions agunst Cashnieer. That of Caiibiil has aho been caUed outoii
13 milkary service.
14 The numbers of the Eeljauree of these two provinces seem to be
15 nearly equal, and have betm of different amoant from fonr to
16 thousand each, according to the state of ciioimstances. Thej seem
17 liable to be employed on public woricB. as well as on military service ;
18 those of Caubul, for instance, were once assembled by Timour Shauh
19 to clear a canal near tlio citv.
20 The Ecija\ireo arc ahnohi all infantry.
21 They receive no pay wliatt vor from the King, unless they should
22 be kept above three months in the field.
23 Dawatullub are only raised i'oi paiUciilar expeditions.
24 They receive five, tomans {£10) when they enlist, which is suffi-
25 cient pay for one csanpaign, and they run the chance of the umy's
26 remaining longer in the field, in the hope of providing for themsdves
27 bj plunder.
28 Tliis descriptioii of troops are always most numerous in eapeditions
29 to India. On sndbi occasions people even go>without pay, in hopes
30 of plunder.
31 In foreign invasions, use might be made of the general rising of
32 the people, called in the A%haiin country Ooloossee. This sort of
33 army has been described in speaking of the tribes. Only those of-
34 the tribes nearest the scene of action could be snqienr«l toiue}
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