1871.] 
A History of the Gable* hars. 
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Suli, secretions from the nose. 
Suba, trunk of a tree. 
Sara, the Hanunian monkey. 
Sogot, civet-cat. 
Samra, a sarnbar deer. 
Samni, pin of the yoke. 
Sakwa, a conch shell. 
Sakom, a brass bracelet. 
Sui/, to set on flames. 
Silip, a muntjac deer. 
Suriam, a pit lark. 
T 
Taka S ?), a rupee. 
Terkalom, the year after next. 
Tunta (l?i>1), maimed-handed. 
Tani, a wild dog, 
To'ian, an Indian roller. 
U 
Usam-ora, a farm house. 
Udal, the shaft of a hackery. 
A History of the Galck? liars.—By J. G. Delmerick, Esq. 
Whether the Gakk’hars have sprung from the Grehoi whom 
Alexander the Great located in Pothwar, and who it is asserted, 
continued there to reign for several centuries, or are Hindus convert¬ 
ed to Muhammadanism, or are, as they themselves declare, the de¬ 
scendants of Persian kings, it is impossible now to speak with 
certainty. 
It is remarkable, however, that the majority of the great 
tribes of this district are ashamed of confessing that their ancestors 
were pagans, or Kafirs. They therefore invariably trace their 
genealogy from ’All orBibi Fatimah, or some other Muhammadan, 
or quasi Muhammadan sources. For example the A wans say that 
they are descended from Arabs. The Kb attars and Budlials de¬ 
clare that they are the descendants of ’All and Fatimah, ignoring 
the fact that such descendants are at the present date styled all 
over the Muhammadan world as Sayyids, Mirs, and Sliarifs. The 
Pathans claim Malik Talut (King Saul) of the tribe of Israel as 
their great ancestor. The Gakk’hars form no exception to this rule. 
They state that they are descended from Naushirwan,* whose 
* Nanshfrwan reigned from A. D. 531 to A. D. 579. Sir John Malcolm on 
the authority of Persian Historians states that this monarch carried his arms 
into Farghanah on the North and India on the Fast. 
