674 Account of the Cabool and Peshawar Territories, fyc. [No. 165. 



of the Mandad Eesafzais get their drinking water from this stream, 

 which is fed from a spring. It has great capabilities, which might be 

 brought to account by a powerful government. It is not much used 

 by the tribes on account of their internal feuds. The villages im- 

 mediately on its banks cultivate vegetables, Indian corn, and a little 

 sugar-cane. 



The reason that the Eesafzais never paid revenue is variously given. 

 An account is, that the Eesafzais gave great annoyance to the autho- 

 rities of the emperor Akber, when building the fort of Attock, and 

 therefore when it was finished, a force of 12,000 men under the 

 Wazeer Beerbal, was despatched against them, which was utterly 

 destroyed by a miraculous shower of stones which fell on them in 

 the Kala defile, brought down by the curses of a mad Eesafzai fakeer, 

 by name Jahan khan, an Umar khel, who received some injury from 

 one of Akber's authorities. 



Akber granted them, in fear, a perpetual indemnity from taxation, 

 and none of the Chaghatai, Moghul, or Affghan monarchs assessed 

 them until the time of Runjeet Singh, who took advantage of their 

 internal dissensions to get possession of the greater part of Samma, from 

 which he levies revenue only by yearly sending a large force to collect it. 



Nadir Shah is also said to have remitted their revenue on account 

 of their restoring to him his crown, which one of them stole while 

 he was encamped near the Attock or Indus. Some say that it was 

 remitted by a monarch, who became alarmed at getting 9,00,000 spears 

 of revenue, which he once ordered to be collected at the rate of one 

 from every house. Others say that it was remitted in consideration 

 of the poorness of their country, and on condition of their eternally 

 waging a religious war of extermination against their northern neigh- 

 bours, the Cafers. 



Mandad is said to have had five sons, whose descendants occupy the 

 Samma country of the Eesafzais (Afghanee) or Yoosafzais (Persian). 



Kamal and Aman were two brothers, whose descendants were called, 

 and are so now, Kamalzais and Amanzais. 



The former are again divided into Mishar, (elder) Kamalzais, and 

 Kishar (younger) Kamalzais. 



The Mishar Kamalzais hold the villages of Hotee, Mardan, Mayar, 

 and Baghdada, each containing about 2000 houses. Their chief oc- 



