1 INTBODUCTION.
2 line. D0te% and Jevvuh&atuKs. T1iemmwmgncmDydiiik,dMNie|i
3 mmeywesfe quite jGur.. . One ywrng mam ln.particiil«r».iviio atood^ wd
4 Btaied in ailient amaaement, Jiad esactly. tfw ttAaatt i&i^baea^ and ap*
5 pearanoe of jBO Inah liajmalcer. They had genefaUyhigh nbsea.; and
6 their stature wa§ father small than laige. ^me had brown wooUen
7 great-ooats, hot moat had white cotton clothes and they all wore white
8 ttulMma^ Ui^ wcK.Tery diirfy. They did not. aeem «t all jealous of
9 their women. Men, women, and children^ orawded round lUf ftlt
10 our coats, examined our plated stirrups, opened our holsten, end
11 shewed irreat nirioHity, but were not troublesome. Scarce oneof them
12 uuderstood any l;inmiairo but riishtoo ; but, in their manners, they
13 were all Tree, good limnoured, and civil. 1 learnt that they had been
14 there three months, and were to return in two more, to pass the sum>
15 mer near (Tiiuznee. They said, that was a far su})erior country to
16 Demaun. I coulcl mak* out little even of what the linguist said, aud
17 there were too luaii v, both of English and Aighauns, to admit of any
18 attempt at a regular conversation. ' .<
19 , Before we left Dera, two of our party, Mr. Fraser and Lieutenant
20 Harris, set out on an expeditaon of eonwdemhb hazard and.difficulty.
21 Tlieir objeot 1^ to aacend the peak called IVddite Sdlhnamii sr
22 BoiKman'a tfarone* where the people of^the c^ountiy beUeve iheraiklb
23 hsve mated after. the dehigew After two deyVmacdiiovei^einkked
24 plain, thejiolBBA tQ en aaoent, and, four' naflea fimfaeeon^ letlke
25 village of Dennbund» the chief place of the little tribe of Maeaunk*
26 heiL Ifc ia a neat little toim on' e fine deer cold JtroBmyMz mileaftom
27 the hifla. They wera received by the chiePs bio(hear» who had' joat
28 eeme in fiom hiuif ing^ ' He wea a fiur good looldng young man, widi
29 a irudie but becominc^ dreaa* a bow and-ipiiTer at his btick, a harela
30 aeut in his turban, and two fine grey hounds following him. Hit
31 leoeption of the strangers was kind : he ordered dinner to their tcm^
32 and proposed that his brother should wait on them, but did not pr»s
33 the visit on their excusing theinselves. For dirmer the^^ had a good
34 pilow, and a plate of the fat of the tail of the Doomba sheep to steep
35 tlieir bread in. Next moniing Omar Kbaun, the chiet^ came , while