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2 h WM a andy filtegr, bagnded bjr craggy hiDi, vMeraA by 4 Utile
3 droimj and intefapanad with dtnnpt of date traet* tod widi patcbei.
4 of gveen oofo. llwviUi^iladf atood in s deep grove of diile.tiMi»
5 on the aide of « biU, Aom ^^ikh manj atnama goalied tfavoqgli litllat
6 cavema in tlie tfaidioat part of die wood. The inhabitanta tram
7 Brioches and flbaifcha, of Aiebian deacent Hiey plunderodaome of
8 our people^ and made odian priaonen ; and thonigh tlda wae macbt
9 np, and we hiied a atio^g lafe-guard from them, we still lost aone
10 eamela> and had atnggjbit plunderod after we had left the place. ■
11 ' The next forty nulea of our jouni^ were up the valley of Laijga^
12 . frtiidi, thoi^ oolj aepaniled fay a ridge of hills fitom the Indus, was
13 so dry and aandy> tliat we wpie.obUged to carry water as in the
14 desart; yet even there we saw some camps of shepherds of the
15 Afghaun tribe of Murwut, to whom the country belongs. After two
16 dreary marches through the valley, we came into a rich and beautiful
17 plain thirty-five miles in diameter, encircled witli mountains, and
18 dividpf? by the Indus. We encamped that day on the river Koor-
19 nuTi, then shallow, though broad, but in Summer a deep and rapid
20 river. From this we made three marches across the plain to Calla-
21 baugh, or Karra-baugh. The country belonged to the tribe of
22 EsaukhaiL It was naluially fertile, highly cultivated, and watered
23 bv canals four feet broad, and as many deep. The people were more
24 swarthy than we expected to see men of their nation, and looked
25 more like Indians than Persians ; they were, however, easily distin-
26 guished fiom the finnier people, by their kmg and thick hidft liieir
27 beaida, the iooae felda of tfadr tulMnia, and a eertatn independent
28 and manly air, that mafked tlienL finr A%iiauna. They are notorioua
29 fobben^ and carried off aome of our cameiat and of the Sng^a Imniei
30 but their otdinaiy behaviour waa civil and decent I wm auipmaed
31 tt ihmt simplicity and equality: though they ave a wealthy and
32 floDiiahing tribe, their dne^ who aooompooied me throu|^ the whole
33 of their knds, waa aa phnn m hia dieaa,.«iid aa aimple hi hia manneia,
34 as the moat orduuny peraon in the txibOi
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