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the Hazrat at Medina. The great grandfather of Sultan Bahram was 

 Soosee, alias Mahammad Sam Ghoree, who first introduced Islamism 

 into Hindustan. It was he that built the fort of Sealkot, and that 

 killed Raja Pathoora. 



The Sultans of Ghor were descended from Zohauk, nephew of Ibas, 

 son of Esam, son of Sam, son of Noah, who expelled Jamsheed from 

 Persia. 



Shah Husein, the son of Shah Muazzadeen, emigrated on the invasion 

 to the country of Shaikh Batanee, between Cabool and Candahar, by 

 whom he was received into his family. Batanee had a daughter, with 

 whom the tradition runs ; Shaikh Husein formed a connection, unknown 

 to the parents, until their daughter's appearance betrayed her. 



The Ghiljaees still preserve this time-honored custom, judging from 

 several cases that came under my notice, the most prominent of which 

 occurred at Kalat-i-Ghilzye. A young unmarried lady of the aristocratic 

 Shah Alam Khel branch of Rokhee Ghiljaee, was safely delivered of a 

 son and heir, the father of which, her intended, was no less than a holy 

 Sayad of Pishing, then absent in India. It appears that they were en- 

 gaged, and at liberty therefore to have their Namzat-bazee ; but as the 

 Sayad had not paid up the whole of the marriage settlement by some 

 100 rupees, the parents would not allow him to take her home. He 

 therefore resorted to this Ghiljaee mode of cheapening his bargain. 

 I met him afterwards in India, but did not enquire whether his lady 

 was yet with her parents or with his own. 



It is very probable that the Afghans, if they were really Israelites, 

 should have been posted by their Cabtu Bukhtanasar on the confines of 

 his dominions towards India. We find Sultan Shahabudeen bringing 

 down the Afghans from Ghor and posting them on the borders of India, 

 and this system of colonizing an unquiet border with convicts seems to 

 have been much in vogue. Thus we find the tribe of Hazarahs far from 

 their present country, posted in the plains of the Punjab below Cash- 

 meer. A colony of Persians was planted in Cabool, and one of Ghiljaees 

 in Balkh. And between the Ghiljaees and Duranees on the Candahar 

 road, we find ten solitary houses of Hazarahs, so called by the Afghans, 

 at Asya Hazarah ; no doubt a larger colony was once posted there to 

 keep the peace between those two rival tribes. 



