1 mt DURIV8 NARRATTVE.
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3 «« in the moming arrived under the shade of a mountain, where scveial
4 *• Afghauns were. They gave me bread, water, and smoke, and pointed out
5 Lundee Khana, situate alott." From tim he got to Pe:siiawer, aud crossed
6 the lodw witlMHit any fiurther adventonm.
7 . The Wmiag ii one of tim- Aoete wUdiiracewiittMi bgrMr. Dmfe
8 before loonvened witih him. Tbejr contalD his general opinions, which seem
9 to me often earmet, end aometimei rtty wngMkm fiar « men in hie ipbeve
10 of life.
11 *• Tiie uiouiiuiiious districts about Atuk, Peshour, Caubul, and Candahar,
12 ** aud beyond Caubul toward Bulkh, and beyond Candaiiar toward Ueraut,
13 " cemptehend tlie A%li«mnBlm» eeOed KhenmmiB. Hw A<t^inn> being
14 ** dilRrait tf9Nsa» ImM dillb«iitdeBominBt^^
15 ** per aoljeclioiit by force or fortune, they are at continual vaimnce with one
16 ** another. Ahmed Shah and Tymoor Shah, being fortunate enough to keep
17 ** up apreat army, which enabled them to ^ubjufrate foreign territorie'*, they
18 "all voluntarily submitted to them, (thougli tluso chiefs had gaiiud power
19 ** enough to humiiie them in no little degree,) as thereby they acquired advan-
20 " tageous employment fiowanrar* ft la eviilent that a fq;alar ooavageoas
21 aaaj, havinig proviskHM, can nuke them all aubanit completely. TtaeMogd
22 ** Kh^ of Tmieriane's race having had them' in undonbted rabjectioii, the
23 ** surrounding mountains being more favourable than deterring or ww«w«fflit,
24 ** The Doorannees re'^ide r^hont Candnhar, though there be not many of them
25 •* there now ; in the preat nL luiies, their Shulis not being al)ie to make foreign
26 ** conquests, the name of Dooraunee prevails not, many tribes not sending any
27 « tribute or cootribation. The fbttowers of the fihaha and Sirdam are by no
28 «meamaniXwrancDeea» though thajmii^ be 80 danonunalad; tbejraieAnd
29 «■ of committing depredations in thdr own letiiUaie% aa tiiejr have not good
30 *• luck enough in these times to carr>* the terror of their sword to Aiei^
31 •* domains. The doitrininn of Ahmed Shnh and Tymoor Shah, had been
32 ** extensive, iti ^^ hK■llthey cuulil Ijave prospered well, buttliey think of nought
33 ** but conquernig, they look not for the acquisition oi' riches, oi' wliich thej
34 are Infloitelj denroaa^ bjr the fjbdanfyuMM aria of hidastry, they .mat k
35 •■bjtfaeanuteoftheaabre; bnl^ ho«ef«r,thei«iiaUowanowt»benMdefor
36 tba lami^they being pent up and endoaed in the anidat of surrounding hiUt
37 ** and mountains, having all around many and inveterate powerful antagonists,
38 ** who have often subdued tliem ; their territory havinp^ been held as a pro-
39 ** vince: they also have extended ificu arms to distant i:t)untnes. They iraa-
40 gine their religion to be tiie btsl aud must true, consequently, they consider
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