58 Lieut. Irwin's Memoir of Afghanistan. [No. 97. 



koodies as in Bajour, and to a greater extent. On the whole 

 this is an agricultural country. In some places sheep, in others 

 goats, are the chief stock. Asses are numerous,, and are the chief 

 carriage, next to which are bullocks. In many villages a horse, 

 mule, buffalo, or camel is not to be found. Timber on the whole 

 is scarce, but fuel is plentiful, and there is no want of fodder. 

 Some corn is imported from Bajour, Koonur, and the Dooab 

 of Peshawur. The chief return made is in mats, which the 

 natives manufacture from the Putha shrub (see paragraph 129.) 

 From certain parts good ghee is exported to Peshawur. The 

 fields are generally Mm, and the chief product wheat. The two 

 crops are nearly equal, but perhaps the rubbee is the greater. 

 The natives drink from tanks, streams, and springs. There is 

 much hilly waste, of no use but as pasture for goats, and in some 

 cases water is scarce. With very few exceptions the villages are 

 small, and the population on a given surface cannot be great. 



Ootman Khel. 

 194. This country is more difficult than even the preceding, 

 which however it resembles in many particulars. It has more 

 timber, its hills producing pine, and water is more plentiful. 

 The chief subsistence is probably from the keeping of goats, and 

 wheat the chief product. The villages are small, but if we 

 believe the received accounts, the population is not incon- 

 siderable, for this tribe is never rated lower than 10,000 families. 

 They have never paid revenue, and have little amicable inter- 

 course with their neighbours. 



Khybur. 



195. This is a rugged and unproductive tract, lying between 

 Jellalabad and Peshawur. The natives live by tillage, the keep- 

 ing of goats, and robbery. Water in many places is scarce, 

 and no pines grow on the hills, which are nearly of the same 

 temperature as those of the Upper Mihmunds. Fuel is plentiful, 

 and there is sufficiency of grass, fresh or withered. 



Teera. 



196. This is an agricultural country, though goats be very 

 numerous. The two crops are nearly equal ; and on the whole, 





