AND ITS FOUNDEfl. SS7 



|5art of them are incapable of distinguishing good from evil, or right from 

 wrong." On this occasion, Mah'san Khan is supposed to have acted by 

 the advice of his religious instructor, to whom, Ba'TEzi'd is asserted by 

 AiChu'n Derwe'zeh, to have given a bribe of three hundred tangas, which, 

 I am told, amounts to about six hundred rupees ; a sum which seems 

 totally disproportionate to the magnitude of the occasion ; and which, 

 though it may have been given, can scarcely be deemed adequate to effect 

 its object. 



Ba'yezi'd having effected his release, immediately on his return from 

 Cdbul, collected his disciples, friends and adherents, and retired to the 

 mountainous district of Tdtei. Not regarding himself as sufficiently se- 

 cure, in this position, he again retreated, and took post in the strong and 

 inaccessible hill country of Tirah; a country which has been conjectured, 

 to correspond to the territory of the ancient Thyrai, or ©ujaic* mentioned 

 by Arrj'an. I am informed, that there is in this mountainous range, 

 a people named Turi or Tori^ who are sometimes in{\properiy confounded 

 v,^;ith the Totei. The Tdtei art a division of the Bangash, notorious 

 ^ven to the present day, for their attachment to the Rosheiiiah sect The 

 Turi on the contrary are rigid followers of the Shidh doctrines. The 

 country occupied by the Turi, most probably corresponds to the terri- 

 tory, of the ancient Thyrcei. Tirah is one of the divisions of the Bang- 

 ashdt^ or districts occupied by the Bangash Clan, which is one of the 

 anost powerful, numerous, and valiant tribes among the Afghd7is. This 

 tribe occupies the difficult hill Country to the south of the mountains of 

 LugJwidn, which is about two hundred miles in length, and one hundred 

 in breadth, on a rough Calculatiori. The district of Ti'rah is about one 

 hundred and fifty miles ih length, extehding from In'db to Cohdtt and 



