1840.] Lieut. Invin's Memoir of Afghanistan. 193 



Indus and from canals for irrigation. Grain is exported to 

 Kalabagh, and probably other quarters. The two crops are 

 perhaps equals and wheat the chief product. They live partly in 

 thatched and partly in flat-roofed houses. 



Moorwuts. 

 218. This tribe lives south of Bunnoo, and their country 

 is by some included in Daman, by others not. The product 

 seems to be bajra, and most of the lands are Mm. Their chief 

 stock seems to be cows, which they pasture in the wastes, in 

 the same manner as many other Afghan tribes pasture their 

 sheep ; they themselves while thus occupied, live in tents made of 

 black goats 5 hair, and generally fenced with shrubs. They keep 

 a considerable number of camels ; their villages are small. 



Daman. 

 219. This is an agricultural country, notwithstanding its pas- 

 turage is so famous, for it is strangers who reap the chief 

 advantage from it. On the whole the two crops are equal ; 

 in the southern part in which Drabiind is situated, the rubbee is 

 the greater ; in the northern, in which lie Tuk and Tukwara, 

 the khureef. The greatest product is bajra, and after it, wheat 

 and barley. Considerable quantities of cotton are raised, and 

 the greater part is exported to the dominions of Moohummud 

 Khan. Bajra and jooaree are in general cultivated lulm, but 

 other things are more commonly irrigated. The Gomul loses 

 itself in the northern part of the Daman (see paragraph 40). 

 There are also a few dams. Many of the natives live by trade. 

 There is little fruit save dates; cattle are the chief stock, and 

 their sheep are both of the heavy tailed and light tailed species. 

 Camels are the chief carriage, and considerable numbers are 

 bred. Some of the mountains, especially that which the Afghans 

 call Kuse Ghur, and others Tukht-i-Sooliman, abound in fir, 

 which afford the neighbourhood timber, fuel, and also torches. 

 The commonest fuel however is from the Guzree, which in 

 certain quarters covers great spaces of uncultivated ground. The 

 natives live in flat roofed houses, excepting those who go and 

 come between the lower and upper country for the sake of 



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