234 An account of Upper and Loiver Suivai. [No. 3, 



upon Tarmah as the permanent residence of the Chiefs, as it was 

 centrally situated, amongst his own clan, the Solizis of the Ba'i-zi 

 division, by which name the people of Tarmah are still called ; hut 

 they are, sometimes, also styled the Khan-khel, or Chieftain's clan. 

 The Khan-khel too may he subdivided, according to what the Khan 

 Sauib said. The one being the family to which the Chief de facto 

 belongs, the whole of the males of which are called Khans ; and the 

 other, the family to which the Chieftainship rightfully belongs, or 

 the Chief de jure, but whose family may have been set aside, or 

 passed over, which is merely the Khan-khel. For instance: if a 

 Suwati be asked to what clan a certain person belongs, he will say 

 the Khan-khel ; but it must be then asked whether the person is a 

 Khan or only one of the Khan-khel. If he be a member of the 

 family of the Chief de facto, he will reply he is a Khan ; but if of 

 the family vcho may be the rightful claimants to the Chieftainship, 

 but passed over, or set aside, he will say he is of the Khan-khel. 

 The Tarmah Chiefs de facto, who are the heads of the Ba'i-zi division, 

 are of two families, the har-kor, or upper family or house, and the 

 kuz-kor, or lower family or house, in reference to Tarmah and its 

 dependencies above the Morey Pass, and Pala'i, and its dependencies 

 below. These two families are descended from Jalal Khan, son of 

 Hamzah Khan, above referred to, and are always at feud. Mir 

 iEalam Khan Chief of Tarmah, Amir Ullah Khan ruler of Pala'i, and 

 Maassum Khan, their brother, who dwells at Tarmah, are of the 

 har-kor ; and Khurasan Khan, ruler of Zor-manddai, Sher-khana'i, 

 and the two Baz-darah villages, and Babu Khan, who resides 

 also at Tarmah, belong to the kuz-kor. Mir vEalam Khan, who 

 is considered the greatest of the Tarmah Chiefs, is about fifty 

 years of age. The next in rank and consideration is Maaasdm Khan, 

 his brother, who is about thirty years old ; then comes Amir Ullah 

 of Pala'i, aged forty, and Khurasan Khan of Zor-mandda'i who is 

 about fifty years of age ; and Babii Khan of Tarmah aged fifty, be- 

 sides numerous children. 



The day passed away pleasantly enough under the shade of these 

 beautiful trees ; and in the evening we went to the residence of the 

 chief ; and in his guest chamber we remained the night. 



Tarmah, which is the most considerable town in Suwat, contains 

 somewhat more than 1,000 houses, which, at the usual computation, 



