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cotton cloth, the manufacture of Peshawar ; and copper and hrass 

 cooking utensils, hut only in very small quantities ; for the people 

 are so constantly at feud with each other, that they have often to 

 abandon house and property at a moment's warning, and therefore, 

 to prevent the loss of such expensivs articles, they generally content 

 themselves with earthen vessels. 



The exports are more considerable ; and consist of rice ; roghan 

 or clarified butter ; urrd (phaseolos mungo) ; wheat ; barley, in great 

 quantities to all the districts round about ; honey, and wax ; scarfs 

 woven from the wool or fur called pashm, varying in price from one 

 to six rupees each, the manufacture of Upper Suwat, often the work 

 of Kashmiris who have settled permanently in the country ; but 

 these articles are not to be compared with those brought from 

 Kashkar. The sMlakaH of Kashkar is that worn by the Hindus of 

 Kandahar as their peculiar distinguishing mark ; but at Peshawar, Mu- 

 salmans and Hindus wear them, without distinction. Bullock and 

 buffalo hides are also exported, but chiefly to Bajawrr. Buffaloes 

 are few in the latter district ; and although numerous in Suwat, they 

 are not so much so as to enable the Suwatis to send them for sale to 

 Peshawar. There is no trade in wool, as sheep are few, as well as 

 goats ; and the pashm or wool, such as they have, is required for 

 home consumption. 



The following lines are taken from a long poem in the Pushto 

 language, which I have referred to previously, by the renowned chief 

 of the Khattaks, Khushhal Khan, who wrote from personal observa- 

 tion. It will be seen that Suwat has not much altered since his 

 day. The translation is literal. 



" In the Emperor Shah Jahan's days, I was in my youth ; 



And every thing to delight the heart was easy to obtain. 



Sarae* from Suwat is distant about thirty coss, 



By the time thou descendest as far as the river and hills thereof. 



For three things Suwat was in my memory impressed, 



In respect to which, all others were as air unto me. 



One, indeed, was this, that I had matrimonial matters in hand ; 



The other was its narcissus gardens ; the third its field-sports. 



I was in the Emperor's employ ; the Yusufzis were unto him 

 averse ; 



* Savae is the chief town of the Khattaks. 



