baber’s tomb. 
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are therefore allowed to follow the practices of their 
lawless avocation with comparative impunity. 
The tomb of Baber, as it is called, is built near the 
town of Sambhul, in the district of Rohilcund, which 
forms a portion of the present province of Delhi. 
Sambhul originally gave its name to the whole of that 
division which goes under the more modern designa- 
tion of Rohilcund. In many parts of this district are 
still to be seen the remains of magnificent palaces, 
temples, gardens, mosques, and mausoleums. The 
Rohillahs, who chiefly inhabit this district, are a cou- 
rageous, hardy race, fond of desperate achievements ; 
but, like all such tribes, turbulent, impatient under 
restraint, and therefore difficult to govern. Unlike 
the Mohammedan races generally, they exercise the 
profession of agriculture, as well as that of arms ; but 
whenever called to the field, they are always ready 
to relinquish the plough for the sword, the latter of 
which is often hanging at their girdles whilst they 
are scattering the seed in the furrow. Like every class 
of fierce and intractable spirits, they submit to no dis- 
cipline, and despise all moral influence as a sort of 
spiritual bondage, incompatible with the natural free- 
dom of man, whose will, as they contend, ought not 
to be shackled, since he was born with liberty of 
choice, and with reason to direct that choice to issues 
best concurring to promote his own enjoyments. These 
semi-barbarous Afghans are fierce and sanguinary, 
and do not hesitate frequently to employ both craft 
and treachery for the accomplishment of their re- 
venge when roused to desperate purposes by real or, 
too often, by imaginary wrong. 
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