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jj. Jela'l-ed-din. Sheikfi Omar, the eldest of these, immediately after 

 the decease of his father, grasped his sword, and having collected his 

 adherents, thus addressed them : " Come on my friends, your Pir is not 

 dead, but has resigned his place, to his son Sheikh Omar, and conferred on 

 'him, and his followers, the empire of the whole world." The vigour and 

 alacrity of" this leader, restored the confidence of the sect ; and it appears 

 that he trod closely in the footsteps of his father, and omitted no means of 

 reviving the enthusiasm, which had been damped by the bad fortune and 

 death of Ba YEziD. After a year had elapsed, he raised from the grave, 

 the body of the accursed father of darkness, and had kis white bones 

 erishrjtned in an ark, and borne before him in battle, and on all other great 

 occasions. To t|*ese b<>nes, sa species of homage v/as paid ; and they were 

 kissed, and revered a^ relics, -by the sect. " When any great peril shali 

 occur," said Sheikh Omar, '* your Pir shall 1-ecover life, and rise "^t® 

 assist us, and destroy our enemies." Impressed with confidence in this 

 singular delusion, the Rosheniah sect recovered new life, and for soh^^ 

 time their affairs siiicceeded prosperously. At last, however, Sheikm 

 Omar, elated by success, inconsiderately involved himself in a contest with 

 the tribe of Tusefzei, who h-ad long been the staunchest of his adherents. 



The Tusefzei are the bravest and most powerful of all the Afghan tribes, 

 .and they occupy the greater part of the extensive mountainous districts of 

 ■Sewdd, Bajdwer, Banker, Pan] kor'a, Dude'r, and Chech h Hazdreh. These 

 countries are all of great natural strength, and consist of ranges of lofty 

 mountains, divided by vaUics which are watered with mountain streams, 

 and occasionally intersected by abrupt precipices. Several of these 

 districts are of considerable estimated extent. S^waV/ is about seventy 

 miles in length, and forty in breadth, and contains twenty-five vallies, 



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