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A Supplementary Account of the Hazarahs. By Major R. Leech, C. B. 



Late Political Agent, Candahar. 



[Drawn up under circumstances of peculiar difficulty.] 



A former account of the tribes inhabiting the Hazarajat, was furnished 

 to Lord Auckland's government, and printed with the other papers of 

 the late Mission to Cabool, (Captain Burnes's). 



I had hopes of procuring a written history of this tribe which I 

 have reason to suppose exists, when I was obliged to quit Candahar 

 with General Nott's force in August, 1842. It was, if I remember, said to 

 be in the possession of the Chief of the Dai Kundee Hazarahs, whose 

 son was at that time a hostage in Candahar. 



The Hazarahs claim brotherhood with Europeans, saying that both 

 are descendants of Japheth, the son of Noah. 



The Hazarahs are called Moghuls by the Ghiljyes. 



I believe that the Hazarahs in former times were like the Afghans 

 of a subsequent period, planted on the confines of India. 



They, I believe, held the high road from Cabool to Candahar and 

 Herat up to comparatively speaking a recent period. 



Many of the names of villages in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Candahar prove a Hazarah founder ; and the tomb of one of their pro. 

 genitors, Choupan, is on the high road between Candahar and Herat 

 near Greeskh : the place is now called Khah-i-Choupan. 



In a paper on the history of Kalat-i-Naseer, I mentioned my opinion 

 that the Hazarahs extended as far as Shawl Quetta, from the name 

 Takatoo of the mountain bounding that valley towards Pishing and 

 Candahar ; and from Kuchlah (which means caves in the Hazarah 

 dialect), being the first stage from Quetta towards Candahar. 



The word " Shev" both in the Hazarah and Brahavee dialects 

 (Koodd-gal) means below, lower ; for we find the Shev Hassarrs or 

 lower Hassarrs, distinguished from the Bal Hassarrs or upper Hassarrs. 



There is in the neighbourhood of Candahar the shrine of an Hazarah 

 saint, who has the title of Hai-taz, (the rush rider). I have mislaid the 

 detailed account of the miracle that got the saint this title. 



The Hazarahs' simplicity is proverbial, and it is probable that they 

 were cheated by the Afghans and Ghiljyes out of quite as much land as 

 they were beaten off. 



