1862.] An account of Upper and Lower Suwdt. 267 



the hands of the Yiisufzis in after years,* and soon overran the whole 

 of that pleasant valley, which they finally subdued, together with 

 the surrounding districts of Buner, Bajawrr, and Panjkorah. 



Shaykh Mali made a regular survey of Suwat and Buner ; and 

 portioned out the whole of the lands amongst the sons of Yusuf and 

 Mandarr, f according to the number of persons in each family ; but 

 leaving a portion for distribution amongst three clans who had ac- 

 companied them in their exodus from Kabul, a few years before, con- 

 sisting of Kabulis, Lamghams, and Nan grab ar is, but who were not 

 Afghans. The portion allotted to Afghans was termed daftar ; and 

 that given to Mullas, Saiyids, and the foreign confederate clans just 

 referred to, was called tsiraH, by which names these lands are still 

 known. Shaykh Mali first divided Suwat into two nominal parts. 

 To that portion, lying between the right bank, and the mountains 

 towards the north and west, he gave the name of lanivdah,% in Pushto 

 signifying moist, from enjoying a greater portion of water than the 

 other ; for where the river separates into several branches is part of 

 this moist tract, hence the name ; and to the land lying between the 

 left bank and the mountains on the south and east, he gave the name 

 of wuchah or dry. The bounds of the lanwdah half of the valley 

 was fixed, by the Shaykh, from Brrangolaey, the boundary village of 

 Lower Suwat, nearly facing Tufcakan, on the opposite bank of the 

 river, to Landdaey, the last village to the north, just opposite Pi' a, 

 and extending in length about sixty miles. The ivuchah portion 

 extended from the village of Tutakan in Lower Suwat, to Pi'a, the 

 boundary village of Upper Suwat, a distance of sixty-three miles. 

 The width of both these divisions was from the respective banks of 

 the river to the mountains on either side. 



Suwat fell to the portion of the Akozis, a sept of the Yusufzis,§ who 



* The account of this is contained in the Akbab Namah. 

 •j* The names of the common ancestors of the Yusufzi tribe. 

 % The plural of lurid, moist, damp, &c. 

 § The following is taken from a Persian work written about two hundred and 

 fifty years since, entitled Khulasat-tjl-Ansab. 



Sarbani, son of 2Eabd-ur-Rashid, Batan or Patan, had two sons, Sharkhabun 

 and Karshabun. Karshabun had three sons, Gond, Jamand, and Kasi. Gond 

 had two sons, G-hurah and Shaikah ; Shaikah had four sons, Tarkalani, Gagh- 

 yani, iEuuiar, and Yusuf; iEumar had an only son Mandarr by name, who 

 married the daughter of his uncle Yusuf, and took his name of Yusuf also. 

 Yiisuf son of Mandarr had five sons ; 1st Eliyas, from whom sprung the Eli- 

 jaszis, who are subdivided into the following khels or clans : Panjpae, Salarzi, 

 Manuzi, Guidizf, and Ayesharzi. 2nd Mat), from whom sprung the Maiizis 



