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Nusa. It is now almost deserted ; but may formerly have had 800 

 houses and a fort of stone and mortar. The site is a natural ter- 

 race, ascended by steps of stone. It is one march above the bifur- 

 cation of the Berrindoo. 



Lyeah, two miles westward of the right bank of the Berrindoo. 

 It is now deserted, but was formerly a town of about 1,500 houses 

 with a fort of masonry. This site is at the roots of Mt. Doserra ; 

 Lyeah, I need scarcely observe, was one of the prominent names of 

 Bacchus. 



About three and a half miles westward of Elye is the site of a 

 village now nearly deserted, called Awaun; quasi, Evan, one of Bac- 

 chus' names. The name of Awaun is common in the N. "Western parts 

 of the Punjaub, to many villages the property of members of the 

 Awaun # tribe. But this village belongs to the Tariki tribe, and has 

 only two or three houses of Awauns. It may therefore possibly be 

 a corruption of the name Evan. 



In most villages and towns of Boonair, but not in Sohaut, are a 

 few houses of a race called Nusa, who are not Pathans and will not 

 give a daughter to a Pathan (generally the highest race in those 

 parts) although they are Moosulmans. They intermarry only with 

 another race called Baboo Lee who are not Pathans. 



The Boa Constrictor abounds in Mt. Elum. 



The Satyr or Ourang Outang is confidently asserted to be found 

 in the forest of Mt. Elum. A horrible story is told of a male which 

 carried a woman to the summit of the mountain and was afterwards 

 shot in her company by a wood-cutter. 



* The origin of the Awaun tribe is a matter of some interest. Next to the 

 Gukkurs and the Tchibbs (Sibi) the Awauns are the most manly and the finest race 

 in the Sind Sagur Doaba. They call themselves Arabs, desirous like all Muham- 

 madans to deduce their origin from one of three noble stocks, the Pathan, the 

 Arab or Mogul. This origin, however, is disputed and seems very liable to ques- 

 tion. They are remarkable for the strength and sturdiness of their frames, which 

 are very different from the spare, athletic, thin flanked figures and spiritual coun- 

 tenances of the Arab race. The Tchibbs, Sibi, with little doubt are descendants of 

 the army of Hercules. The Awanns may prove to have derived their name from 

 Evan or Bacchus, and to be descendants of the colonies left by that prince upon 

 the Indus. They are most numerous in a district bordering the Indus near Ghayb 

 and called Awaunkari. 



