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2 The Sutlej.
3 2 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
4 east, but the Sikhs have for a long time occupied
5 the left bank of the river, under the protection of
6 the British. In former times the Sikhs on that
7 bank were named the /I lalwtt Sikhs, in allusion to
8 their rich country resembling in its fertility the
9 province of that name in Western India. Those
10 inhabiting the country between the Sutlej and
11 Beas, were named the Doab Sikhs j while the
12 country stretching from the Beas to the Bave'e
13 was inhabited by Manja Sikhs, so named from the
14 jungly tract which reaches from the vicinity of the
15 former river to Mooltan. From the neighbour¬
16 hood of the Doab between the Indus and Jeliun,
17 and also of that between the latter river and the
18 Chenab, to Affghanistan, the inhabitants are chiefly
19 Mussulmans, and even at the present day several
20 of them are found in the former district.
21 All the rivers of the Punjab rise in the Hima¬
22 layan chain of mountains, whence the Ganges and
23 Junanah derive their sources, as well as numerous
24 smaller and tributary streams. The sources of
25 tfie Ganges and Jumnah, though placed among
26 perpetual snow, are comparatively near to tire
27 western and southern limits of the mountain ; not
28 so with those of the Indus and Sutlej, which exist
29 in regions far in the interior of the Himalayas, and
30 on the boundaries of countries to which the Euro¬
31 pean only has access at great risk and danger.
32 The Sutlej is the Hesadnte of the ancients, and
33 receives various names according to the tract of
34 country it passes through; such as the Sarangas,