1 222 THE LORDS OF THE HILLS; —
2 of the Khaundore territories, whose three great seats of govern-
3 ment were then, the first or greatest at the present Maa Buun,
4 a great mountain on the west bank, and twenty miles north
5 east of the fort of Attock; the second at Khond or Khaund, for-
6 merly a great city, as yet to be seen, about twelve or fifteen miles
7 north or north west of Panahthaur, all curiously cut out of
8 the solid rock into caves and apartments of different kinds, round
9 and all over a large mountain of bare black flinty rock, and its
10 present extent and circumference may be said to exceed 4 or 4|
11 miles. The third was Dheroo or Droogh, (the present Gund-e-
12 ghur, a large mountain, and to this day an obstinate stronghold
13 held by the Gundaghurries, on the east bank, and just to the
14 east of the town or village of Hazeroo. Besides these there were
15 several other but smaller principalities and strongholds of the
16 Khaundores. The Khaundores conceived that they could not act
17 better than to enter into a close alliance with Koondroo or
18 Koohoondroo, and by this alliance they hoped to crush, or usurp
19 the power of their eastern enemies, the Rhahauks, Gethes and
20 Nazoos,* whose country and numerous wandering hordes were
21 the southern and south-western neighbours of the Rhahauks or
22 southerly or south westerly Punjaub, and their wild tracts, with
23 some few exceptions, extended to the sea (Beloochistan) and were
24 always in friendly alliance with the northerly Rhahauks, and
25 though much more numerous, a wild and wandering race, were
26 mostly graziers, shepherds, &c. and acknowledged a kind of
27 supremacy in the heroic lords of Rhahauk. The Gethes were
28 plunderers and wanderers, and the present Jat may be suppos-
29 ed to be the descendant of the Nazoos and Gethes, roving shep-
30 herds that inhabited and wandered along the different banks of
31 * The Nazoos and Gethes were the supposed aborigines of the Punjaub, and the
32 present Jum Loke or inhabitant herdsmen and shepherds, with the Gudgers of the
33 lower jungles, may be supposed to be their descendants. The Jats, who always
34 intermarry with the Gudgers, may be considered of the same race ; and perhaps their
35 appellation Jat may be a corruption of the former Geth or G6te.