JOURNAL 



or THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



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Part I.— HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 

 No. IV.— 1880. 



SemarJcs on the Aff/Jidns found along tlie Tioute of the Tal Chotiali Field 

 Force, in the Spring q/" 1879. — Bg Lieut. R. C. Temple, B. S. C, 

 F. R, G. S., M. E. A. S. &c. (With 3 Plates and 2 Maps). 

 • (Concluded from puff c 107.) 



Paut II. 

 III. Distrihution of the Tribes. 

 In the above description of the Tribes along the Tal Chotiali Route 

 their distribution en route has been but briefly referred to. In the next 

 Table the names of the tribes inhabiting the villages on the accompanying- 

 map are shown. And it will be seen that as a rule the Pathan Tribes and 

 Sections stick pretty well together and are generally to be found in certain 

 compact districts and nowhere else.* Thus Achakzais are confined to the 

 region about To'ba and the Kho'ja Amean range, and the To'r Taeins 

 to the Pishin Valley. Among the Kakar sections the same thing is to be 

 observed. The Amawb Khe'x, occupy the country about the north of the 

 Pishin to Mt. Kand and the Sitliman Khe'l the range dividing the Pishin 

 and Do'f Valleys, the Mehtaezais all the country to the north of the R. 

 Eo'd Gorge and the Panizais that to the south of it and so on. Even where 

 the country seems to be pretty well divided between sections, as the Do'e 



* Villages of mixed populations are to be found in the more settled parts, such as 

 the Pishin, Do'f, and Gwa'l Valleys, though not commonly, and when it is said that 

 a certain village is occupied by a certain subsection or section it is meant that the 

 main portion of the inhabitants belong to it. As a rule, however, villages are not mixed. 

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