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are usually a long green grape, but I have occasionally seen 

 boxes coutaiuing red grapes. This part of the country does 

 not produce coriuths or currants, they are said to be imported 

 into Cabul from Kafirstan, and then exported occasionally to 

 India via Peshawur. An excellent vinegar is prepared from 

 grape-juice in Herat: this is an article much exported. 



Vulpes species. 



A Fox, rciba, rohct, sdlab, sdlub. Fox-skins, post-i-roba, of 

 which there is some trade in these parts. 



Wach, ivaj — ^^ — the sweet-flag, Acoeus calamus. 

 Walnut — the tree and fruit of Juglaxs regia. 

 Wan — ^^ — ivana — a tree ; the Pistacia vera and 



PiSTACiA Terebinthus, var. mutica. 

 Wamzad — -^^aJj — wanjacl — ^••i^ — [the tree-resin], 



the gum-resin or mastich of Pistacia species. 

 Wdngar — the Kurain name for the indigenous 



PuxiCA Granatum. 

 Wcira — xji^ — like, resembling. 

 Warag, icarg, warak, icarh — O;^ — a leaf. 

 Wash — Jl'^ — fodder, herbage. 

 Washing. 



The roots of Gypsophila paxiculata and of Acantho- 

 PHYLLUM MACRODOX, barilla, lime, and last of all soap, are 

 employed in washing woollens, cottons, and clothes. 



Water — Cih, do ; a well or shaft, chd ; a reservoir, 

 that is usually covered over, hauz ; a spring, 

 chasma, db-khez ; an underground conduit, 

 hharez, Jcdrez ; a canal, nahar ; a weir, embank- 

 ment, or dam, hand ; a river, rud, darid ; a 

 piece of water, the depth permitting of the 

 growth of bushes, hamun (this originally means 

 a level plain) ; the sea, or a river, da rid. 

 Water-bottle — mash k. 



These are usually made of goat or kid skins. In Baluchis- 

 tan, where every man carries one, some are beautifully pre- 

 pared, the skin being very carefully tanned, and as soft as 

 the leather of a ulove. 



