448 An account of the Early Abdakes. [No. 162. 



Among the descendants of Saul mentioned in the Scripture, as will 

 be seen from the following, no name occurs approaching Elkanah or 

 Afghan ah. 



Aphiah 



I 



Bechorath 



Zeror 



I 

 Abiel 



Kish Ner 



I I 



Saul, Abner. 



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Wife Ahinoam, daughter of Ahimaaz. 



Concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, Sons 



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Daughter Michal, David's wife, given to Melchisua, 



Phalti the son of Laish. Ishui, Abinadab, 



Daughter Merah, (husband Adriel Me- Jonathan, Mephibosheth, Micha, 



holathite.) Ishbosheth. 



Elopement also takes place among the Afghans, and the clan in 

 which the couple take refuge consider it a point of honor not to give 

 them up to the tribe of the father. Arbitrators adjudge seven girls to 

 be given in exchange, one actually mounted on horseback, and two others 

 are valued at 100 Candahar rupees each; half is paid in ready money, 

 and half in goods, a matchlock, a sword and a gonee or bag of grain, 

 being each calculated at a Tuman of twenty rupees. 



They (many tribes) divide their lands according to " Orbale" or 

 fire-sides, and bachelors get nothing but their own zarkhureed or pur- 

 chased lands. The tribe of Shimalzai Ghiljyes say, that their tribe was 

 once so numerous, that by each man subscribing a bush of brushwood 

 (used for fire- wood,) a couple was set up in the tribe. This subscrip- 

 tion is called " Baspand." 



On the 3rd November 1841, a widow, the daughter of Ashraf a Ba- 

 eezye Hotak, complained to me as political agent at Kalat-i-Ghiljye, 

 that her daughter had been engaged to one Ghafoor Bahlol-khel Julal- 

 gai Tokhee, a khoon-kash or bleeder by profession, for the last fourteen 

 years ; for the last eleven of which he had not been heard of, and was 

 therefore to be considered dead. She therefore wanted his heir (a bro- 

 ther) to dissolve the contract, take her himself offher hands to what was 

 now become her tribe, or support her while for a further period she 

 waited for her intended. 



