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From Mitanee I proceeded seven kos to Akhor, and put up with Malik 



Akhor. Hakeem Akhorwal, by tribe an Afreedee, and a great robber. 



The road was stony and through defile. At the entrance of the defile are 



two ruined forts and a large tank. There is a large town here, erected by 



the Afreedees. One thousand rupees are yearly levied here on salt. 



From Akhor I proceeded to Cohaut over a hilly road, and through 



a defile ; the neighbourhood abounding with Af- 

 Return to Cohaut. 



reedee villages, and put up with Agha Mehdee 



in the village of Myankhel, near the shrine of Hajee Bahadur. On 



the road passed the village of Zarghoonkhel, where there is a large 



tank and four towers, one at each angle of the village, and four kos 



further on, passed the village of Torakee, which is situated on an 



eminence ; and then the Cohaut kotal or Pass, which is very difficult, 



especially of descent. On the top of the Pass is a tower, 

 Jr ass. 



nominally for the protection of the road ; but it is 



garrisoned by twelve men of the Afreedee tribe, who, although en- 

 tertained and paid by the governor of Cohaut, are often themselves 

 engaged in plundering merchants and travellers. At the bottom of the 

 Pass is a second tower, garrisoned by twenty men. At Cohaut I dis- 

 charged the former Meerza, having paid him up. 



Cohaut is divided into three tapppas, as follow : Bazeekhels, Samal- 

 zyes, and Meeranzyes. 



Cohaut itself is included in the territory of the Bazeekhels. The 

 fort of Cohaut, in which the governor resides, is of a square form having 

 four bastions, and situated on an eminence There is a second fort, in 

 which there is a dwelling house and reception room, over which is the 

 mehman Jthanna. There is a tower in the fort at the entrance and a 

 covered well ; drinking water is procured from seven springs outside 

 the fort ; three of the springs gush out from near the Telee's mosque, 

 Bazar, and four from the vicinity of the Bazar, by which four mills are 

 turned. There are fifty shops, four mosques, and two dharmsals. 



Cohaut has to the east the Afreedee country, the Torakees and 

 Soorakees, and Khushalgar, to the west Hangoo, to the north the Pass, 

 and to the south Lachee and Dour. 



The following are the neighbouring dependencies of Cohaut, entered 



Neighbouring de- into the daftars as Bangash-i-Paiyeen Jangal, under 

 Shah Zaman and Aslam. The cultivation is car- 



