18G2.] An account of Upper and Loiver Suwat, 2G7 ' 
the hands of the Yusufzis in after years,* and soon overran the whole 
of that pleasant valley, which they finally subdued, together with 
the surrounding districts of Buner, Bajawrr, and Panjkorah. 
Shaykli Mali made a regular survey of Suwat and Buner; and 
portioned out the whole of the lands amongst the sons of Yusuf and 
Mandarr,f according to the number of persons in each family; but 
leaving a portion for distribution amongst three clans who had ac¬ 
companied them in their exodus from Kabul, a few years before, con¬ 
sisting of Kabulis, Lamghams, and Nangraharis, but who were not 
Afghans. The portion allotted to Afghans was termed daftar; and 
that given to Mullas, Saiyids, and the foreign confederate clans just 
referred to, was called tsira’i, by which names these lands are still 
known. Shaykh Mali first divided Suwat into two nominal parts. 
To that portion, lying between the right bank, and the mountains 
towards the north and west, he gave the name of lanwdah,% in Pushto 
signifying moist, from enjoying a greater portion of water than the 
other; for where the river separates into several branches is part of 
this moist tract, hence the name; and to the land lying between the 
left bank and the mountains on the south and east, he gave the name 
of wuchah or dry. The bounds of the Jdnwdah half of the valley 
was fixed, by the Shaykh, from Brrangolaey, the boundary village of 
Lower Suwat, nearly facing Tutakan, on the opposite bank of the 
river, to Landdaey, the last village to the north, just opposite Pi’a, 
and extending in length about sixty miles. The wuchah portion 
extended from the village of Tutakan in Lower Suwat, to Pi’a, the 
boundary village of Upper Suwat, a distance of sixty-tliree miles. 
The width of both these divisions was from the respective banks of 
the river to the mountains on either side. 
Suwat fell to the portion of the Akozis, a sept of the Yusufzis,§ who 
# The account of this is contained in the Akbab Namah. 
f The names of the common ancestors of the Yusufzi tribe. 
% The plural of hind, moist, damp, &c. 
§ The following is taken from a Persian work written about two hundred and 
fifty years since, entitled Khulasat-ul-Ansab. 
Sarbani, son of iEabd-ur-Rasliid, Batan or Patan, had two sons, Sliarkhabiin 
and Karshabun. Karshabun had three sons, Gond, Jamand, and Kasi. Gond 
had two sons, Ghurah and Shaikah ; Shaikah had four sons, Tarkalam, Gagh- 
yam, iEumar, and Yusuf; iEumar had an only son Mandarr by name, who 
married the daughter of his uncle Yusuf, and took his name of Yusuf also. 
Yusuf son of Mandarr had five sons ; 1st Eliyas, from whom sprung the Eli- 
yaszis, who are subdivided into the following Ichels or clans : Panjpae, Salarzf, 
Manuzi, Guidizi, and Ayesbarzi. 2nd Mati, from whom sprung the Matizis 
