1 AmMUEj KAUSHKAUB. em
2 comidarabb skretn* over vHiSA tlwre ak* levanl woodtn luridgmfc «•.
3 seldom ficdaUe m low as Fjoabad. The part of Beloot Taugfr withia
4 Budukhshsun produces, iron, salt, and wlphur, as well as abundance of
5 lapis lazuli ; but the celebrated mines of rubies, which occasion Buduk-
6 shann to he so often alluded to by tiie Persian poets, are situated in the
7 lower lulls near tlie Oxus. They ve not now wrought. The plain country
8 and valli^ are fertile, though not extensive.
9 ' The inbalutaiita an Tau^ilEB, and are called BuduUuheaB $ but towarda
10 tbe.weat are many campa cf wandering Udieka. The capital is Fyzabad, a
11 considerable town on the Koocha. The preaent chief is Sultaun Mahommei^
12 who I In 11 eve is absolute. His revenue is said to be six lacks of ni]>ees
13 (about ii?6o,ooo), and his force from seven thousand to ten thousand men,
14 mostly matchlockmen, a service in which the Buduksliees greatly excell.
15 They are oocaatonally banaMed by irruptioni of tlM IM»da of Taolikaiiii,
16 and llieir borden auflRer from the depredations of the Caufira; but it is long
17 since tfaejr have been- diatuibed by any great war. Fyzabad was taken, and
18 the whole country nominally subdued by the Vizier Shauh Wullee Khaun
19 in Ahmed Shauh's time, but he probably felt himself unable to retain pos-
20 session, for he coiiiented himself with taking some relicks, and evacuated
21 the couutry. Among the relicks was tlie shirt oi' Mahomet, which in the
22 neighbouring coimtriea was thought as great a prize as the itatuea taken
23 &om Italy by the Frendi were in Europe:
24 The (XMintiyof Kaushkaur must be carefulty distinguished from Cashgar near
25 Yarktind inChincscToorkistaun. I liave endeavoured to mark the difference by
26 retaining the spelling of our majis for the first place, and gi\ ing that which
27 is commonest in Aighauniiitaun for the other ; though in fact I have heard
28 both called indiacrimiiwtelyi Kauahkaur, Kaushghur and Kaushgaur. The
29 resnnUance of the names led us into great mutalces idaen we first arrived
30 at Peshawer. We bouglit tea, which we were told was brought by caravans
31 from Kaushkaur (Cashgar), and the first people whom we asked respecting
32 the distance, told ns we inijrht easily go to Kaushkaur, and return within
33 a fortnight. In time, however, we obtained more precise inl< imiation. We
34 ibund that the nearest Kaushkaur was aa extensive, but mountainous and .
35 tU iDhabited country, lying to the west of Budntahaim, fiom which it was
36 divided by Beloot Tfnq^; faanii^ litdeTibeton the east, the Fimereonthe
37 north, and the ridge of Hhidoo CooBh(wfaicli aeparatca it fiom tlieEuioQsea)
38 on the south.
39 Tbe Gountiy is high and <x)ld* The inhabitants live chiefly in tent^
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