1SG2.] An account of Upper and Lower Suwdt. 235 
gives about 5,000 inhabitants. The people are Afghans of the 
Ba-i-zi branch of the powerful and numerous tribe of the Yusufzis* 
About a hundred houses are inhabited by Hindus, Paranehahs, and 
other traders, who also follow such occupations as that of shoemakers, 
smiths, barbers, &c. 
The town of Tarmah lies a short distance from the skirt of the 
mountains bounding Suwat to the south, and on the eastern bank of 
the river of the same name, the Suastus of the Greeks, from which 
it is distant about half a mile. 
The village of Nal-Banddah, which was previously referred to, lies 
at the very skirt of the Morah mountains, on a spur which has be¬ 
come separated from the higher range and runs about three, or three 
and half miles a little to the mouth of Tarmah. 
After passing Nal-Banddah, the land slopes down to the river, but 
not in such a manner that anything set a-going will, of itself, ride 
down to the river. The land of the whole of Suwat, in fact, is like 
a boat, the sides of the boat are the mountains, and the bottom part 
the land, as different materially from the mountains. The lowest 
land in the valley is that portion through which the river flows ; and 
it gradually rises until close up to the mountains. It may also be 
compared to the two hands placed together like as when one wishes 
to drink out of them; but only just sufficiently raised so as to pre¬ 
vent the water from running out. 
I found, from what I heard of the most respectable inhabitants of 
Tarmah, that Shaykh Mali was a Yusufzi Afghan, and that his 
descendants still dwell in Suwat; but they could not give me 
full particulars as to what village they might be found in; neither 
could they inform me regarding the place where the Shaykh was 
buried. Khan Kaju, or Kachu belonged to the Barrnizi branch of 
the Yusufzi tribe ; and his descendants also dwell in the valley, at 
the village of Allah Ddaud, and will be mentioned in the notice of 
that place, further on. 
The historical work written by Shaykh Mali is not in the possession 
of the Tarmah chiefs; and they, moreover, informed us, that the 
work would not be found in the whole country, save in the possession 
of Khan Ivaju’s family. 
We now prepared to start from Tam?ah towards Upper Suwat. 
On the morning of the 22nd August, we left Tarrwah, bending our 
