251 An account of Upper and Lower Suwat. [No. 3, 



Throughout the whole of this valley, from Sar-banddah to the 

 boundary of Upper Suwat, there are immense numbers of trees, both 

 along the river's banks, and on the mountains on either side, to their 

 very summits. The trees mentioned as having been seized by the 

 Suwatis, in a former paragraph, were felled in this valley, to be floated 

 down to Peshawar. I saw one of the party who had gone to fetch 

 them, and he informed me that trees, some of which were large 

 pines, only cost, in felling, from three-pence to two shillings each. 



The wild animals of this upper portion of the valley of the Suwat 

 river are numerous ; consisting of tigers,* bears, and monkeys, in 

 great numbers, particularly the latter ; wild boars, gazelles, a large 

 species of deer, wild bulls, hares, foxes, wolves, and jackals without 

 number. The mountain sheep is also common, as well as the musk- 

 deer, called rdmusi by the Afghans and Kohistanis. 



The flocks and herds consist of bullocks, cows, sheep, mules, and 

 numbers of goats. There are also hogs, brorrahs, (a species, of 

 wood-louse), and fleas in swarms. Indeed it is said the fleas of this 

 part are more numerous than those of Suwat, from which, Heaven 

 defend us ! 



The dress of the Kohistanis consists of garments woven wholly 

 from pashm, the peculiar wool or fur of these parts, with which 

 several animals are provided. They do not wear shoes, but twist 

 strips of the leather of cows or goats about the feet and legs as far 

 as the knee, but the feet are protected by sandals, the two great-toes 

 being left bare. The women dress similarly to the men, with the 

 exception of the covering for the legs. 



The people are very fair and comely ; and the women, who go 

 about unveiled, are very handsome. 



The cultivation depends upon rain. They do not use the plough, 

 but a kind of hoe or mattock, to turn up the land with, or otherwise 

 make holes in the ground, into which the seed is inserted. "Wheat 

 and barley are by no means plentiful ; but jodri (holcus sorgum) is. 



Fruit is more abundant in the Kohistan than in Suwat, but much 

 of the same description. The winter is severe ; and snow falls in 

 great quantities. 



The Suwatis import grain ; and thread, needles, and coarse blue 

 cotton cloths from Peshawar ; and salt from the Khattak country is 

 imported into the Kohistan, 



* Leopards probably. 



