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shawl, we marched on, receiving from our way side acquaintance a parting 

 caution to put no trust in any Eimauk. 



"We safely concluded this day's march of 12 miles, which brought us 

 among a quite different people. In point of personal appearance the 

 advantage was certainly on the side of the Eimauks, who though living 

 closely after the nomade fashion of Toorkmans and Oosbegs, have 

 the features rather of Darians then Tartars. The Feroorcokehs indeed 

 claim descent from a Colony, which was exported from Feroorkoh, 

 in the Persian province of Mazenderan. We encamped upon the right 

 bank of the Henrood, among people of this clan, half a mile off on 

 the other side of the river was the fort of Dowlut Yar, surrounded by 

 villages of Tymunnee tents, to which we learned that Hussan Khan 

 had returned the day before, apparently without having entertained any 

 idea of barring our road. 



The war, we learned, was ended. It had its origin in an act of vio- 

 lence committed 9 years before upon the very Agha Hossein attending us 

 as guide, then travelling with a stock of goods from Herat to Cabool, who 

 was plundered by the former chief of Dowlut Yar, for preferring the 

 quarters of our host the Ferozkohee Atalik. The latter Chief not being 

 able with his domestic means to force a restitution of the goods taken 

 from his protege, allowed Agha Hossein to call upon his Huzarah friends 

 for succour, and the leading chief of Deh Koondee, Hussan Sirdar, 

 glad to indulge a national dislike w r nile defending a commercial pri- 

 vilege which it concerned every Chief, w T hether Eimauk or Huzarah, to 

 uphold, came with such a large force that he took the lead in the opera- 

 tions against Dowlut Yar, having captured and utterly rased the 

 fort ; after killing its Chief and his eldest son, he gave the old man's, 

 wife to his own brother, and took his daughter to himself, returning 

 home only, when he had captured another fort nearer the border, and 

 placed a party of his own men therein. Agha Hossein got all his goods 

 that could be recovered, and so retired. But now the Atulik regretted 

 the loss of Eimauk reputation to which he had been accessory, so he 

 countenanced a stratagem by which the border fort was recaptured, and 

 having helped to rebuild that of Doulut Yar, brought back the old chief's 

 second son, the present Hussan Khan, to in herit it. The latter had just 

 before our coming persuaded most of the Eimauk Chiefs, including his fa- 

 ther's first adversary the Atalik, to make on attack upon Hussan Sirdar of 

 Deh Koondee, for the cleansing of their national reputation. The quarrel 

 was accommodated in a way to make the Eimauks appear superior, by the 



