Coins from the Aliin Posh Tope near Jelalabdd. 
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found that his own language differed but little from that of the Kafirs 
which he appeared to know thoroughly. I learned—I cannot say with any 
amount of pleasure—that there are nearly as many languages in Kafiris- 
tan as there are tribes, hut of this I am pn-etty well sure, that the one which 
I have been learning from the Subadar, may he taken as typical of the 
whole. I asked the Chuguni the numbers in the Kafir tongue, and they 
almost exactly correspond with those given by Burns, hut the dialogue 
given by him differs as much from the Kafir language of my Chuguni, as 
the latter does from the Kunar language, which may be broadly called the 
Kunar dialect of the Kochis. 
“ My two wild men soon tired of this place and its novel and strange, 
sights, and went away assuring me that my life would be protected by 
them in their own valley, as they would protect their own heads. They 
have gone under a piromise to bring back two Lai Kafirs, and are to be here 
iu 8 days, and it is with the Chugunis that I must enter Kafiristan if I 
do it at all. They are half Kafir themselves, and though.pirofessed Mussal- 
mans they seem to have their sympathies more with the hereditary enemies 
of their co-religionists than with the Muhammadans.” 
Capit. Wateehoijse exhibited some gold and coppier coins and relics 
&c. found by Mr. W. Simpson in the Ahin Posh Tope near Jelalabad, and 
read the following letter from Mr. Simpson to Colonel Colley regarding 
them. 
“ Yesterday morning (10th February,) I penetrated to the centre of 
the Ahin Posh Tope, and found the cell. In it there lay about two or 
three handfuls of what I suppose to be ashes, 18 gold coins, and a golden 
relic-holder, for wearing by a cord round the neck. It is 3f inches long, 
and in it were 2 gold coins and a small dark-coloured substance which 
I suppose was a relic. All these objects I have delivered over to Major 
Cavagnari, who is sending them off to Calcutta for Lord Lytton. 
“ I write this to give a very slight account of the position of the cell 
and the finding of the objects, all of which will no doubt be of interest to 
His Excellency. The tope is about 80 feet diameter, but I had to begin 
the gallery from what remains of the square base, which gave me about 45 
feet of digging; and judging from other topes with galleries which were 
made to get at the articles deposited, I guessed that it would be wisest to 
go on the level of the lowest bed of stones. When the gallery reached the 
centre, the cell was at my feet. 
“ It had been formed of slates and on the surface of the ground. We 
appffy the term “ Buddhist Masonry” to the kind we find here. It is of 
stones with a slate packing. The accompanying sketch will give its 
