1859.] Notes on Kafiristdn. 341 



they occupy a portion of the valley of Kandah-i-Nil along with them 

 and the Kati-his. None of the Manduls have embraced Islamism. 



Tapah-kal. 

 The tribe of Tapah-kal is located in the valley of Inkar, which 

 they have held for some centuries past, along with the convert- 

 ed Wamah families. The Tapah-kal are nearly all Muhammadans 

 by profession, but are, nevertheless, considered by their neighbours 

 of that faith to be worse than the unconverted Kafirs generally. 



ChdndJc. 



The people of this tribe have all become Muhammadans, and 

 retain their original district — the valley of Mtikah — which contains 

 fourteen villages of no considerable size. It lies to the west of 

 Islamabad, a town of Lamghan, and south of Dumiah in the Sae-kal 

 darah, held by the Pashagar tribe. 



Duli-tdk. 



The Diih-tak tribe formerly held the districts about Koh and 

 Korinj, which form the angle between the river Kow and the Najil or 

 Alishang, just before they unite at Tirgari, a village of the Lam- 

 ghan district. Some few of the Diih-tak tribe have become converts 

 to Muhammadanism, and now dwell in the Inkar valley, along with 

 the small portion of the Wamah tribe, which has, as well as the 

 generality of the Tapah-kal, embraced the same faith. The larger 

 number of the Duh-tak tribe, at present inhabits the country to- 

 wards Chegan-sara'e, through which flows the river of Chitral or 

 Kashkar, (called erroneously the upper branch of the Kamab, but 

 really another river falling into the Kamah here,) and on the borders 

 of the country of Kashkar-i-Pa'in or Lower Kashkar, known also 

 amongst the people of these countries as the territory of Shah 

 Kator, but now ruled by his son Tajammul Shah. This state will be 

 hereafter described. 



Sd-ldo. 

 This tribe in former times, held the darah or valley of Eanah kot 

 or Sa-lao, but for very many years past has been dwelling in that 

 part of the centre of Kafiristan watered by the Sliunah river, 

 towards the highest ranges of the Hindu Kush, also called theShiinah 

 valley. It lies to the west of the Kati-hi country, north from Lam- 



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