698 Account of the Cabool and Peshawar Territories, $c. [No. 165. 



Two kos further are two villages, called Chounee, containing each 

 400 houses, under Sayad A man khan, Swatee, a man of Ghazan khan, 

 the inhabitants a lawless set, and no one can pass the plain without 

 guards, which is called the Dasht of the Shamseezais. 



Three kos further to the north, is the village of Shewah, having 

 800 houses and twenty shops, a mart for merchandize, under Ghazan 

 khan, being on the mercantile route from Bajour to Swat, about 

 2000 jarebs of lalmee cultivation. 



Four kos further to the south east, on the banks of the Landai 

 Swat, there is the large village of Chakdarrah, having 1,200 houses, 

 mostly merchants, included in Swat. Shamseezais by tribe, under 

 Ghazan khan, six hujrahs. 



Below the village to the west, is a ford across the river, (no boats 

 or rafts.) 



Beyond the river is the boundary of Anayettoola khan, Rarenzai, 

 and the village of Alladaud, in which he resides; on the other side are 

 the Shamseezai Khwazozais, under Ghazan khan. This is the boundary. 



There is another road to Bajour from Kurhadab, six kos is the vil- 

 lage of Munda, having 2000 houses and 100 shops, under Mahammad 

 Ameer khan, Kochai, brother of Meer Alam khan. 



The whole pergunnah of Bajour contains 1,25,000 jarebs, and its 

 revenue amounts to 2,60,000 rupees, in ready money and kind col- 

 lected on the seed (Kalang), of which Meer Alam khan receives 

 2,000,000 with his brothers, 40,000 rupees is received by Ameer 

 khan, of Nawazai, an enemy of Meer Alam's, and 20j000 rupees is 

 received by Ghafar khan, the son of Haiyat khan, the chief of Janda- 

 wal and Barawal, who is also an enemy of Meer Alam khan's. 



The following are the boundaries of Bajour. To the north in the 

 direction of Deer, the Jundawal and Barawal hills; to the south 

 (twenty-five kos length,) the Darrah of Nawazai, and the pergunnah 

 of Kunar. To the east the Darrah of Badwa and the hills of Cuner ; to 

 the west (twenty kos breadth,) Pashit and the Darrah of Baboo Karah. 



The chief within these boundaries is Meer Alam khan, the son of 

 Allaiyan khan, Salarzai Tarkadeir. 



He has thirteen guns, (seven iron taken from Ghafar khan, son of 

 Haiyat khan, and six of copper, ? of his own.) forty Shaheens, 700 

 large Jazacers, 8,000 foot, 2,000 horse, six pairs of state drums and 



