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An Account of Upj }er Kdsh-kdr. 



[No. 2, 



are, however, numerous small hamlets. The people have the name of 

 being the only robbers in the district of Panj-korah, which may be 

 accounted for, in some measure, from the fact of this valley being the 

 most difficult of access in the whole district. 



Paistj-korah Daeah. 

 Sultan Khel, 



Sher JEali. 



Pagul. 



Mardan. 



Bar (upper) Panj-korah, 



Kiiz (lower) Panj-korah, 



Pat-aw, 



Dir, the residence of the chief. 



Dir, the capital of the Panj-korah district, contains about two hundred 

 houses, not including the citadel, and some twelve hundred inhabit- 

 ants. It is protected by a considerable fortress or citadel, situated on 

 a high mound or eminence, a spur from the Las-pur mountains. The 

 walls, which are substantially built of mud and stone, are about four 

 hundred yards long, three hundred in breadth, and twelve yards in 

 height ; and are flanked by four towers or bastions. Within the 

 citadel, which is kept in excellent repair, there is a large mosque, 

 besides several other buildings, including the residence of the chief 

 Grhazan Khan, and his numerous family, together with his immediate 

 followers, constituting his standing army, the whole of whom, with 

 their families, amount to about two thousand five hundred people. # 



There are, in this, as in the other valleys, numerous small hamlets. 



SHAMtJE-GAR DAEAH. 



Shamur-gar, Pa-indah Khel, 



Khir, „ „ Allah Yar Khan. 



Amluk-nar ? The people are the descendants of the aboriginal 



Jabalak, inhabitants of the country, and called by the 



Yusufzis raceyats (vassals) and fakirs (villains). 



The two smaller darahs of Taha^ki and Dudba are contiguous to 

 this valley, and open into it. They contain a few hamlets. 



The other chief places in the Panj-korah Darah, are Ghundi,t 

 Chakya-tan, Arottah Sin, and Panah-kiit. 



^ * Babar calls this place Panj-korah, probably as it was the capital of the 

 district. He notices it as follows. " Panj-korah lies a little above the middle 

 of the slope of the hill. It is necessary, for nearly a 1ws } to climb up, laying 

 hold of the ground." Memoirs, pp. 250. 

 f Signifying, in Pus'hto, a detached hilL 



