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Tajic came into general use, but it appears to be of some antiquity, as it 

 is employed by Sherif-ed-din Ali Yezdi, who uses it in contradis- 

 tinclion to the terra Turc, in his account of the wars of Tdimar in the 

 mountainous region of Catdr, Emerging occasionally from obscurity, 

 this race have produced many princes and great men, and are fond of 

 enumerating the learned and religious chara6ters which have arisen 

 among them. Spread over a vast extent of country, they use a variety 

 of languages^ but in general they employ Persic, Turd, or Pashtu, and 

 sometimes Barki, Lughmdm, and Cashgari. It was this race which first 

 opposed the propagation of Ba'yezid's principles and tenets, and after- 

 guards furnished his most formidable opponent. 



When B\'YEZiD took up his residence in Ningarhdr, he assumed the 

 chara61:er of a Mulla; and being of an acute genius, and sharp wit, as far 

 as regards the wisdom of this world, though forgetful of the wisdom of the 

 world which is to come, he for some time met with considerable success, 

 especially among the Afghans. But the tribes of Tdjic, m Kingarhdr^ 

 were soon startled by the extravagance of his opinions ; and being fond of 

 learning, and well versed in the dodtrines of the Sonna, or tradition, they 

 opposed such a serious resistance to his novelties, that he quickly deter- 

 mined to abandon Nmgarhdr^ and to choose a more favourable scene of 

 a^ion. 



Few of the Afghan tribes were at this period more ignorant than the 

 Waziri of Caniguram, among whom Ba'yezid had been bred. They have 

 long possessed an extensive tra6l of strong hill-country, and are ferocious 

 robbers ; while their rudeness is so notorious among the neighbouring 

 Afghans, that they are proverbially said, to be ignorant of every thing, but 

 to live, eat, and die, like brute beasts. They however, conjoined with their 



