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the Huzarah meers, have their feuds, which continually break them up 

 into parties against each other. The people are bolder than the long 

 oppressed Huzarahs, and will get together to attack travellers whom 

 they would rather only attempt to rob privately. 



The Soldiers of both tribes are cavalry, mounted chiefly on small ac- 

 tive horses of native breed, though some ride horses imported from Toor- 

 kistan. Their arms are swords, and matchlocks, the last weapon furnished 

 with a prong for a rest. There are clans of military repute among 

 both people. Their strength lies in the poorness and natural difficulty 

 of their country, but the last defence is I imagine greatly overrated. 

 Parts of the interior are described as much more steep than that which 

 we traversed, but this portion, which is the most important, as being 

 on the high road to Herat, is by no means so inaccessible as it has been 

 represented. 



Neither among Huzarahs orEimauks is money current, and sheep form 

 the prime standard of barter with the traders who come among them from 

 Afghanistan, and Tartary. These Merchants establish a friendly under- 

 standing with chiefs of different districts, to whose forts they repair and 

 open shop, giving their hosts 2| yards of Kerbus, or coarse narrow cotton 

 cloth, for the value of each sheep received in barter ; and being furnished 

 till their bargains are concluded, with straw for their beasts, and 

 generally bread for themselves and their people. Traders from Herat, 

 Candahar and Cabul bring their checked turbans, coarse cotton cloths 

 and chintzes, tobacco, felt, and carpet dyes, iron spades, and plough ends, 

 molasses and a few raisins. Toorkish Merchants bring similar articles 

 from their own country, with a little rice, cotton, and salt, occasionally 

 horses, which they prefer to exchange for slaves. 



The articles which the Huzurahs and Eimauks bring to market, are men 

 and women, small black oxen, cows, and sheep, clarified butter, some 

 woven wollens for clothing, grain sacks and carpet bags, felts for 

 horse clothing, and patterned carpets, all made from the produce of their 

 flocks, for they export no raw wool. They also furnish lead and sulphur, 

 and the Eimauks especially speak of copper and silver mines as existing 

 in their mountains, but they do not work them. 



Agha Hoossein, a Native of Herat, who had long traded among the 

 the Huzarah, and Eimauk clans, occupying our route between Bameean 

 and the border of Meimunna, negotiated our passage with a safe guard 

 the whole way for 1,200 Rupees, and we marched with him from Bameean 

 on the 23rd September 1840, escorted by 80 Huzarahs under a son of 

 Meer Sadik Beg, a leading chief in the district of Deb Nangre. Our road 



