NASSUK. 
The Hindoo inhabitants of Nassuk relate a great 
diversity of tales, some Brahminical, and some Bud- 
histical, descriptive of the origin of their city. The 
Mussulmans also claim the distinction of having been 
its founders ; and as they have but one story con- 
cerning it, and that a particularly picturesque one, 
while it is likewise the most probable, I shall venture 
to translate it. They affirm that its foundation was 
the work of a very notorious character in the Mogul 
history, one 
YAKOOB LAIS, THE BANDIT CHIEF, 
who afterwards raised himself to be governor of the 
province of Sehistan. The legend is thus told : — 
About the middle of the ninth century in the 
Christian era, when Dherm-ben-Nassuk was governor 
of the province of Sehistan, there lived in the city of 
Herat one Lais-ul-Suffar, a brazier, who had three 
sons, Yakoob, Omar, and Ali, youths remarkable for 
their manly beauty, their undaunted courage, and 
