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word towards him, and jumped up behind him ; the man not even halt- 

 ing, turned his horse, and trotted back again to Subzawar with his 

 reclaimed property ; for there was no time to interfere if even I had 

 the will to do so. 



From Subzawar to Imanet, the villages are inhabited by mixed 



tribes of Duranees ; but between Imarut and Jaigee, 

 Imanet. 



the population is entirely composed of Goorazye 



Moorzye. We met on the road a pleasing sight, — some few Kheils re- 

 turning from the south to re- settle in their old lands in Subzawar. The 



Dlehikzye Kheil, with whom I was so near being ob- 



J <xy a. 



liged to fight at Ahinuk, as related in a former re- 

 port, had also just returned to their ancient habitations, laded it was 

 said with spoils, of which a part was the Company's camels. I re- 

 ported this last circumstance to Major Todd, not thinking the present 

 a prudent time for me to stir in the matter. 



At Jaya two gentlemen, who were travelling towards Laush on their 

 private affairs, requested leave to accompany my party. One was the 

 son of the old Moorzye lord, so well described by Mr. Elphinstone, 

 Ahmed Khan ; the other was a relation, Dost Mahomed Populzye, a 

 person well known in the modern history of Herat ; they both shared 

 in the general ruin which has fallen on all men of rank under the 

 rule of Yar Mahomed Khan, whose policy it has always been to allow 

 the clans subject to Herat, to be without a head ; so that there should 



T . , . _ be no one of influence in the country but himself and 



Joined by two Du- J 



ranee gentlemen. his immediate adherents. Though I could not but 

 fear that the two nobles came to beg, it was diffi- 

 cult to refuse giving them the protection they asked for, particularly 

 as a few miles from Jaya we had a few hours before met two different 

 parties who had been robbed by the lawless inhabitants of the hills. 

 Their followers did not consist of more than eight horsemen, so we bid 

 them all welcome, and assigned them their station in the camp, they 

 agreeing to share in the fatigue of keeping watch at night, in which 

 every person with me, of whatever class he might be, took his part. Our 

 watches were not indeed kept with the silent decorum of a European 

 camp, though perhaps in a manner equally effectual. Several parties 

 N - , . , of twos and threes sat round fires in different quar- 



ters, and kept themselves awake by singing songs, 



