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are so well versed in their own genealogical lore as to be able to 
relate their descent viva voce, for five hundred years or more, this 
chief does not know the names of his ancestors, nor the number of 
generations between Khan Kacliu and himself! After this specimen, 
it is not very astonishing, that Mir iEalam, Chief of Tar mall, did 
not know how he stood with regard to Hamzah Khan, his own great 
ancestor. 
From the writings of Khushhal Khan, the renowned chief of the 
Khattaks, in the reign of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb his son, we 
find that the descendants of Khan Kachii were several times dis¬ 
persed ; hence their present comparative diminution of power, and 
smallness of* territory, and want of worldly goods. 
The most celebrated and powerful chiefs of Suwat, indeed the two 
families who exercise the chief power over the whole valley, are those 
of Tarmah, already mentioned, and the chief just named; otherwise 
all Afghans are Khans, particularly when from home, or on their 
travels. My business here, too, as you are aware, lay more with 
Mullas ; and I endeavoured to avoid the chiefs as much as possible. 
At Allali-ddandd, however, Suhbat Khan, son of Hukamat Khan, 
Slier Dil Khan’s brother, has also a portion of the Rarrnzi country ; 
but he is four or five years older than his nephew, who is the chief 
of this branch of the Yusufzi tribe. 
The tomb of Khan Kacliu is at Allali-ddandd, also that of the 
famous Malik Ahmad, who took so prominent a part in the affairs of 
the Yusufzis, from the time of their being expelled from Kabul by 
Mir Ulagh Beg, grandson of Timur-i-lang, up to the time of their 
conquest of Suwat and Panjkorah, and other districts about Pesha¬ 
war, which some have stated to have been theirs, already in 
Alexander’s day. # I could not discover any thing about Shaykh 
* Major J. Abbott in bis “ Gradus ad Aornos,” (Journal for 1854,) quoting 
Arrian, with reference to the seige of Massaga, states : “The enemy had 7,000 
mercenary troops of the neighbouring districts (the Rohillas, probably , who still 
sivarm in that neighbourhood.” Again: “ By the 3rd and most obvious route 
crossing the Nagooman at Lalpoor, he would have threaded the Caroppa Pass, 
have entered and conquered the Doaba of Shub-gudr, have crossed at Ashtnugr 
the river of the Rusvfzyes , or as they still call themselves, Asupzye , Aspasioi, i. e. 
the Issupgwur, and would have found himself in the country of the Aspasioi /” 
Surely Major Abbott knows that Rohillahs are Afghans, and that their 
country is called Ron ; and if the Yusufzis only reached Kabul in Ulagh Beg’s 
days, and years after conquered Peshawar and Suwat, it is evident they could 
not have been there in Alexander’s days, any more than the Normans, who con¬ 
quered the Saxons at Hastings, could have been in England, in the days of 
Julius Caesar. 
