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2 AatmBuOk'} CAUFIBJ8TAUK. 619
3 I^M conunon kiods «ra wheat aad inilleL TIm Mads are
4 only 'fit for nwn on fbok, aad sre oftea ooMed hj rivers and tonenUb whuA
5 are paased by means of wooden bridges, or of swinging bridges made on
6 ropes of withy or some other pliant tree. All the A-illairfs that I have heard
7 described are built on tiie slopes ol hills, so Uial the ju«.»t ot one house formn
8 the street ieadiug to the one above it ; and this in i<>ud tu be the coustaat
9 ynctke ot <lie country. The venejs «wt be well peopled thai of tlie
10 C2aunNi«e trifae> atkest, ooaiaiaed ton vil]^;ei^ aad dw chwf piao^ Gau»
11 daidit ctmaiflted of five famidned lioiiNa*
12 The people have no general name for tlieir nation. Each tribe has its
13 peculiar name, for they are si! divided into tribes, thouph not accordinj? to
14 genealogy, but to geographical position^ each valley being held by a separate
15 tribe. The Mussulmans confound them all under the name of Caofir or
16 lBida|» and call tbeir conntiy QHififten. Hiey abo call one diviricm cT
17 tkMn Seeapodi (Uaek vested) or Tor Gaafin (Uadr infideb), and another
18 S^>een Caufirs (white infidA). BoA epithets are taken from their dress, for
19 the whole of the Caufirs are remarkable for the fairness and beauty of their
20 conipk xinn, but those of the largest division wear a sort of vest of black goat-
21 alum, while the other dresses iii white cotton. *
22 ' There are several languages among the CJaufirs* but they have all many
23 irards in cotasnuNH and ell have a neer ceanectioii with fhe Shamcrit* They
24 have all one peadiarity, which is, that they ooBBt by scores inifaind of hiOK
25 drad% »ad that their thousand (which they call by the Persian and PusfatiOO
26 nanie) consists ol' four hiuKlred or twenty score. All these observations
27 apply also to the Lughmaunee or Deggaunee ku^guage^ which saenu to be a
28 * Tbe fdlowiag are the naam of tome of tbeir tnbet. The fint act were givea t^tht '
29 Caufir of Ta okooee, tbe wooad got by MooUak Nqnb tt Ct1'—friT\ sad Iks tkW bf SI
30 Roy at Kuttaun and on the bordert of Bajnur.
31 I. Traiguma, Gtmccr, KaKanr, Bainigtdlee, Chainziah, Diiiidtn» WiBk WsI
32 Cooahteea, Dhaing, and Waqeoi, otikd Piiaitla bj tbe IfoHdaaMk
33 s. Caumojee, Kintojee (wboae diirf town n MundienMbee), MoanAyyul, QntoSe (hdF of
34 whom are toward ; B'.;1iikh»haun and l)a!f tn^viriJ-- L .n;f.in.iiijri , Pi^ro'jufe (\K],o-,r ijapltJ in Ki»h.
35 tokee), Tewnee, Foonnoa, Uchkoog, Uouhce, Suoiujo, Koolumee Rooae Turkuma (to wbm
36 tdaiig Kt— r fiOiihliwS NMta. Ch<imga« Wawa^ KhooBBM, I>i i iriih, Bmk, eai. Ite,
37 I mu*t obaeire tbst nnr of Moollah Nujccb'* lirt it Pnihs, which is stated to live toward*
38 Caubul, and which 1 tloubt nut is the origiu of tbe Pushawee* mentioned by Bauber, and
39 fcuad in the Cohistaan of Caubul.
40 $.^W«Hc Daiwvaee, Oiwbea^ KiittMr» FaadMt, FlwiKin Cirosaiu fiMsc^ TwhssHi
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