278 An account of Upper and Lower Suwat. [No. 3, 
cotton cloth, the manufacture of Peshawar ; and copper and brass 
cooking utensils, hut only in very small quantities ; for the people 
are so constantly at feud with each other, that they have often to 
abandon house and property at a moment’s warning, and therefore, 
to prevent the loss of such expensivs articles, they generally content 
themselves with earthen vessels. 
The exports are more considerable ; and consist of rice; roghan 
or clarified butter; urrd (pliaseolos mungo) ; wheat; barley, in great 
quantities to all the districts round about ; honey, and wax ; scarfs 
woven from the wool or fur called pashm , varying in price from one 
to six rupees each, the manufacture of Upper Suwat, often the work 
of Kashmiris who have settled permanently in the country; hut 
these articles are not to he compared with those brought from 
Kashkar. The shdlaTca'i of Kashkar is that worn by the Hindus of 
Kandahar as their peculiar distinguishing mark; hut at Peshawar, Mu- 
salmans and Hindus wear them, without distinction. Bullock and 
buffalo hides are also exported, but chiefly to Bajawrr. Buffaloes 
are few in the latter district ; and although numerous in Suwat, they 
are not so much so as to enable the Suwatis to send them for sale to 
Peshawar. There is no trade in wool, as sheep are few, as well as 
goats; and the pashm or wool, such as they have, is required for 
home consumption. 
The following lines are taken from a long poem in the Pushto 
language, which I have referred to previously, by the renowned chief 
of the Khattaks, Khushhal Khan, who wrote from personal observa¬ 
tion. It will be seen that Suwat has not much altered since his 
day. The translation is literal. 
“In the Emperor Shah Jahan’s days, I was in my youth ; 
And every thing to delight the heart was easy to obtain. 
Sarae # from Suwat is distant about thirty coss, 
By the time thou descendest as far as the river and hills thereof. 
For three things Suwat was in my memory impressed, 
In respect to which, all others were as air unto me. 
One, indeed, was this, that I had matrimonial matters in hand ; 
The other was its narcissus gardens; the third its field-sports. 
I was in the Emperor’s employ ; the Yiisufzis were unto him 
averse; 
* Sarae is the chief town of the Ivhaltaks, 
