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An account of Upper and Lower Suwat. 
And the rascals’ matchlocks are always in uproar on them. 
There are mountain goats, wild sheep, and tiny-footed deer ; 
But the matchlock men, alas ! drive them all away. 
Since there is so much country included in Suwat. 
It is more than the appanage of a single chief. 
The boundary of Chitral is quite close unto Suwat: 
Populated and prosperous are its hills and its dales. 
The road into Chitral lieth through its Kohistan 
A caravan can reach there in the space of five days. 
For three or four months this road is good and open ; 
But, afterwards, hath great dangers from snow and rain. 
This road however is not, by travellers,, for traffic much used ; 
But trade is carried on by convoy, through the more level tracts. 
There is a road leading to Turkistan by Hindu-koh ; 
And another, that leads to Chitral and Badaklishan. 
Another road also that leads to Butan and Kashghar; 
And one more, that goes to Morang, up hill and down dale. 
All these lie on the extreme bounds of Hindustan ; 
And there are other routes on the confines of Khurasan. 
The Yusufzis in numbers are beyond all compute ; 
But they are all asses and oxen nevertheless.” 
On some future occasion, I propose giving a few extracts from the 
history of the conquest of Suwat, out of the work written by Shaykli 
Mali, and the book referred to at page 261. 
# The tract through which the river of Suwat flows, already described, at 
page 253. 
ERRATUM. 
Page 230, line 6 from bottom. For kolat read total. 
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