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stream is met, sufficient for drinking purposes. The Shanwarees and 

 Balagoorees are here mixed. 



For the next four kos the road is very difficult, over ascents and 

 descents to the Darrahof the Balagoorees ; after passing through which 

 the village of Isportang, belonging to the Barozai Khaleels, on the plain 

 of Peshawar, is reached. 



The Abkhanah route from the well where the Tahtarah road branches 

 of, is as follows : 



One kos to the south from the well there is a Kotal to be ascended, 

 after which for one and a half kos, there is a plain and then a second 

 Kotal one kos to descend. At the bottom the Cabool river runs, and 

 this is a stage; the ferry is called Guzar-i-Guttah, there is a small plain 

 but no habitations, the inhabitants having their dwellings and shops 

 in the hills above, for the accommodation of travellers by raft. On 

 a Caffila arriving, these people descend and prepare rafts of inflated 

 bullock hides to cross the Caffila, if they have Badrakahs or guards 

 with them. It is impossible to cross the river but by raft, and as the 

 stream is confined by high overhanging hills, it is very difficult to 

 proceed along the bank over them, either backwards or forwards, a 

 camel not being able to go. The stage belongs to the Momands under 

 Saadat Khan. On crossing the river there is no open space, and a halt 

 is made among the rocks on the river side, of only sufficient duration 

 to reload the beasts of burden. 



The road then for four kos, is an ascent up the brow of hills, with- 

 out water or habitations, much infested by thieves. 



Then the village of Hyder Khanee is reached, which is surrounded 

 on all sides by hills. The inhabitants live in mat huts, which amount 

 to 100, and there are 200 matchlock men ; this is a stage. 



Thence the next five kos are over ascents and descents; Zaitoon 

 and Baloot trees are plentiful, as well as the matting grass; the oc- 

 cupation of the inhabitants is mat-making, men and women. They 

 do not wear leathern shoes, but grass sandals, which they wear in and 

 out of doors, on the hills and in the plains ; they are called Chaplee or 

 Psaplai. 



Thence five kos the road is hilly, having ascents and descents to 

 Michnee, which is situated below hills, on the river, which is to the 

 south. There are two villages furnishing 700 matchlock men. The 



