270 An account of Upper and Lower Suwat. [No. 3, 
6,000 matchlocks. I asked what he meant thereby; and he replied, 
that he meant families who could send one adult male capable of 
hearing arms into the field, which generally is one to a family. It is 
a very fair mode of computation, and a generally correct one. 
Out of the hounds of Lower Suwat are the Doshah-khels to the 
west of the river, and the Utman-khels to the east; and beyond the 
hounds of Upper Suwat are the Akhund-khels, the descendants of 
Akhund Darwezah, who are Tajiks, that is to say, are not Afghans. 
These two khels, however, are, not considered as included in Suwat. 
The Doshah-khels are located on the west side of the river, beyond 
the bounds of the Khwado-zis, of the Khadak-zi clan. When the 
Doshah-khels, who formerly dwelt in the hills behind or to the north 
of the Khadak-zis, descended from their hills, from time to time; 
they, by paying money to some, practising deception with others, 
and, according to the Afghan custom, taking by force in other cases, 
succeeded in acquiring a few villages and some lands, which, had 
they been wholly in the plain, and not in the hills, I could have 
visited. The lands they thus acquired they have not built villages 
upon, but have set them apart for cultivation only. Three of their 
best villages are, Ttala, Bagh, and Pingal. 
All to the west of Tutakan and Matakani is out of Suwat and is 
called the country of the Utman-khel. The village of Hissar, also, 
is not considered to be in Suwat. 
Beyond the bounds of the Ba’i-zis of the Janak-khel, in Upper 
Suwat, to the north-east, lies Buner, which belongs to other branches 
of the great tribe of Yusufzi. On the opposite side of this part of the 
valley, beyond the mountains, lies the valley of the T/shiri river, 
belonging to the Malizi branch of the Yusufzfs, known as the tribes 
of Panjkorah. Beyond the mountains bounding the Kohistan or upper 
valley of the Suwat river, the country of the Yasm prince lies, and 
the Gilgittis, who, also, are not Afghans. 
It was a natural consequence in the distribution of the lands of 
Suwat amongst his people, by Sliaykh Mali, that some would have 
good land whilst others would have inferior; and that sagacious 
chief foreseeing that disputes would arise in consequence, instituted 
the peculiar custom of an interchange of lands, after a certain 
number of years ; and to which the name khasarrm and wesh was 
given, from the mode of drawing lots amongst this simple race of 
