678 Account of the Cabool and Peshawar Territories, #c. [No. 165. 



Three kos further to the north is a village called Nawai kilee, 

 containing 700 houses of Burkhah-khel Eesafzai3 Bunherwal, under 

 Zyarat khan and Meer Sahab khan. The cultivation is lalmee. 



From this village to the east, in the hills, is a valley called Yoosaf 

 Darrah, in which there are 400 houses ; and adjoining it to the north- 

 west is another valley, called Ghanum Darrah, containing 800 houses. 

 Cultivation lalmee. Trees of the kinds Zaitoon, (olive) Baloot, (holly- 

 oak) Archah, (fir) are plentiful, and serve for firewood. The interior 

 of the valley is attractive and open, but the inhabitants are a lawless 

 set, and have many quarrels at the time of changing lands. Their 

 chief i3 Ahmad khan, son of Azad khan. 



One and a half kos further on is the village of Kadappa, containing 

 300 houses, under Maddat khan and Muneer khan. Cultivation lalmee. 

 Their drinking water is brought from a distance in pitchers on the 

 head. They have large flocks and herds. 



Two kos further north is the village of Pishtool Darrah, containing 

 1000 houses of Doulatzais, under Manzal khan and Natab khan, em- 

 bosomed in hills. Cultivation 2500 jarebs lalmee. Their drinking 

 water is brought from a distance from the east. 



To the north of the village the road leads through a defile so 

 narrow, that a laden ass passes with difficulty. Half a kos after 

 getting clear of the defile a river is reached, flowing from west to 

 east through hilly defiles, until it falls into the Abaseen. It fertilizes 

 the whole of the Bunher lands, and those who inhabit its borders 

 cultivate rice and chiefly live on it, boiled soft and mixed with 

 ghee. The cultivation lalmee ; wheat on rising grounds and skirts of 

 hills. 



To the north of the road across the river is the village of Shil 

 Bandai, containing 400 houses, under Bahadur khan. 



There is another, called Kalpanai, containing 500 houses, under 

 Shahdad khan. 



There is another, called Mash katta, containing 400 houses, under 

 Fazal khan, and Bhadur khan, the son of Shahdad khan. 



There is another called Kulgarai, containing 400 houses, under 

 Nouroz khan. 



There is another called Matwaridain, containing 2000 houses, under 

 Mahib khan. They each cultivate the land of their bakhrah, or 



