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towns, most of those in villages and all those of the shej^herds who are in 

 easy circumstances wear a dress nearly resemhling that of Persia, which 

 though not very convenient is remarkably decorous and with the addition 

 of a beard gives an appearance of gravity and respectability to the lowest 

 of the common people. The poorer Duranis, particularly among the shep- 

 herds, wear a wide skirt and mantle. The poor only change their clothes 

 on Fridays and often only every other Friday, but they bathe once a week 

 at least, and their prayers req^uire them to wash their faces, beards and 

 hands and arms many times in the course of the day. The little Khans 

 all over the country wear the Persian dress. Their coats are made of silk, 

 satin, and a mixture of silk and cotton called Gaemstjt, and sometimes of 

 brocade, and they all wear shawl girdles and a shawl round their caps. 

 Their cloaks also are of broadcloth often red or of silk of dliferent colours." 

 To the Achakzais the above remarks hardly apply except in a very general 

 way. Their manner of dress is the same, but they seldom or never change 

 their clothes as long as they last, and consequently go about in filthy rags 

 often half tumbling olS them. They are in dress as in everything else the 

 most uncouth and uncivilized of the great clan to which they belong. 



With regard to the Sayads, Tarins and Kakars, etc. met with en route 

 there is little to be remarked except that they all wore the unmistakeable 

 Afghan dress. In the more civilized valleys as the Pishin, Dof, Gwal, 

 Ghazgai and the Borai the dress was better and more respectable answering 

 to the above given description of the Durani dress.* But in the hill dis- 

 tricts especially in the elevated region about Mt. Mazhwo the dress mere- 

 ly appeared to be a collection of dirty rags, the remains of what was origin- 

 ally the national costume. The Panizais, Mehtaezais, Saeas"gzais, 

 AiiA^D and SuLiiiIy Khe'ls, DuiXAES and Zakhpe'ls among the Kakars 

 bear off the palm for dirt and squalor. The I'sa, Utman and Sajtbab 

 Khe'ls are much cleaner and neater in appearance and altogether better 

 dressed. The Lr'xis and ZAEKH.i>fs met with wore the dirtier and more 

 ragged class of dress, but with the exception of the Sa>"DAE Khe'l Kakars 

 the Pishin Sayads were the best-dressed people I recollect to have seen ou 

 the road. 



The dwellings were found to differ considerably in different parts of 

 the route. Those about the Pishin and Dof valleys were apparently con- 

 structed on the same principles, whether Sayad, Tarin, Achakzai or 

 Kakar. Tribe indeed does not apparently affect the construction of 

 dwellings so much as locality. 



The most noticeable construction of hut is that to be found every- 



* Among the Sayads it was to he ohserved that the articles of dress were not 

 homespun but of foreign manufacture, obtaLaed probably during their many visits to 

 Hindustan. 



