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in their village. The reply of the Tirataey's to this is, that they 

 stole the body from Kanjuan, and carried it off to their own village 

 and buried it there. All such statements as these are solely for their 

 own interested purposes, in order to enable them to peel off the skin 

 and flesh of poor people, in the shape of offerings at the shrines. 



Having now reached the boundary or extremity of Upper Suwat, 

 beyond which I could not then penetrate, we began to prepare to 

 cross the river, and return home by the opposite bank ; but before 

 giving an account of our homeward journey, I will here give you 

 the information I gained respecting the country beyond, up to the 

 source of the Suwat river, which I obtained from an intelligent 

 Afghan who passed several years there. 



After leaving Pi'a, the boundary of Upper Suwat, the first village 

 is that of Chur-rra'i, beyond which the Pushto or Afghan language 

 ceases to be spoken, and the Kohistani language is used. The first 

 village is Biran-yal inhabited by Tor-wals, which is situated on the 

 left or western bank of the Kohistan river as the river of Suwat is 

 also termed. The distance between this village of Biran-yal and the 

 village of Chur-rra'i is about eight miles, from the first of which the 

 Kohistan may be said to commence. The people here too under- 

 stand Pushto. From this to the extremity of the valley, at the 

 mountain of Sar-dzaey, is a distance of seventy-five miles ; but the 

 valley is so narrow that a stone thrown from one side reaches the 

 other ; in short it is about a bow-shot across. The whole of this 

 space is occupied by two tribes ; first the Tor-wals, sometimes also 

 called Pud-baris ; and above them again, the Garwi tribe. The 

 amount of the former is about 9,000 adult males, and the Garwis 

 about 3,000. Hence it will be seen, that this district is densely 

 populated. The villages inhabited by Tor-wals, from south to north, 

 are ; Biran-yal, to the west of the river, eight miles from Chur-rra'i ; 

 Haranaey, to the east of the river, about twelve miles from Chiir- 

 rra'f ; Cham, to the west of the river ; Gornaey, to the east of the 

 river ; Chawat-gram, to the west ; Eamett, to the east ; Chtikil, to 

 the east ; Ajrd-kalaey, to the west ; and Man-kial, to the east, — these 

 belong to the Tor-wal tribe ; and Pash-mal, to the west ; Har-yani, 

 to the east ; lla-hi-kott, to the west ; Uslui, to the east ; Ivalam, to 

 the west ; and Utrorr, to the west, belong to the Garwi tribe. 

 After this, still proceeding north, are the three villages of the 



