This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...rushes down with great violence, but to no depth. The road is, on the whole, bad, except in fine weather, and in bad weather, if not impassable, would give great trouble to baggage-animals. The higher places between the river-beds, where the water cannot scour, are usually cultivated, and there are patches of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...rushes down with great violence, but to no depth. The road is, on the whole, bad, except in fine weather, and in bad weather, if not impassable, would give great trouble to baggage-animals. The higher places between the river-beds, where the water cannot scour, are usually cultivated, and there are patches of cultivation along the hill-sides. At 4 miles to the left, close by the road, are passed Rahamdil Kha!n's villages of the Mu'sizai sept of the Tor Tari'ns, a largish place, to the back of which, over the low hills, lie the villages of Mi'r Kalam Khaln, of the Ka'kozai sept of the Achakzai s. There is an interesting a'sya', or watermill, near this, with a raised ku'l (open watercourse) leading to it, and close by is a ka're'z, but most of its wells are dry. Some distance to the right also lie Brija'n Kala, called also Auli'a Kala after its malik, of the Ma'ezai sept of the Tor Tari'ns about 4 miles off, and Da'dgwal, of the Mu'sizai sept of the same tribe, about 5 miles distant. A noticeable feature in the country is the peculiar glacis or slope up to the hills on the valley-sides, which is also to be seen on the other side of the Kho'jak Pass in the Kadanei Valley. The bouses also differ a good deal in build from those on the other side the Kho'jak, the peculiar domed roof is nowhere seen here. The kile's (properly kizMais), or black semi-permanent tents of the Achakhais, are to be seen dotted all over the hill-sides and the plain. Large quantities of sheep and goats are to be seen grazing, but not many cattle: horses are to be found in the Sayad villages engaged in the Kara'chi horse-trade. Badwa'n, 5600 feet, malik She'rdil Kha'n, is a To'r Tari'n village of the Badozai section; not particularly large, but straggling, like all the villages of the Pish...
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