258 An account of Tipper and Lower Suwat. [No. 3. 
although we were on foot and brought no water with us; and this 
too on the last day of August, the hottest of the hot months in the 
Panjab and at Peshawar. On ascending the Pass, and about two and 
half miles from the commencement of the ascent, we came to a zia- 
rat or shrine, with a rivulet running past it, and shaded by fine 
zaitun or wild olive trees, an immense forest of which, the largest 
in the whole of Suwat, and reaching to the summits of the moun¬ 
tains, here commences. On reaching the crest of the Pass, and 
looking downwards we could see the village of Garraey, which we 
passed, and proceeded on to Khazanah, the men of which are the 
strongest in Suwat. At this place also, we met a very pretty young 
woman, who, I remarked to my companions, was the first good- 
looking one I had seen in the Suwat valley. We still proceeded 
onwards, and reached Zirah Khel, which lies just opposite to the 
Sanddakaey mountain on the other side of the river. Prom thence 
we went on to Ouch-i-Bala, and Ouch-i-Pa’in, both of which villages, 
lying close to each other, are situated just inside a long narrow 
valley, containing water, through which a road, which is always 
open, leads into Bajawrr. There is another road by way of Lower 
Suwat, but this one is preferred. 
Here we passed the night in company with a Icdfilali or caravan of 
Khattak traders ; and in the morning, which was the 1st September, 
we were conveyed across the river from the ferry near the village 
of Chak-darali, where Kokal-tash, the general of the Mughal Em¬ 
peror Akbar, built a fort to overcome the Yusufzis of Suwat, to Allah - 
ddandd, thus leaving the tdwndah or moist part of Suwat, and 
entered once more the ivucliah or dry district. There were no traces 
of ancient ruins near the former village. 
Allali-ddandd is the residence of the chief of the Earrmzf branch 
of the Yusufzi tribe, and the residence of the chief, Sher-dil Khan, 
son of iEinayat-ullah Khan (mentioned by Conolly in his notes on 
the Yusufzis). He is a young man about twenty-three years of age, 
and is a lineal descendant of Khan Kaju, or more properly Kaehu, the 
chief of nine laics * of spear-men, in the days of Sher Shah, Ludhi, 
Emperor of Hindustan, and the author of a valuable history of the 
concpiest of Suwat by his tribe, some few years previously. Notwith¬ 
standing his proud descent, however, and that Afghans, generally, 
* A laic is 100,000. 
