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ebi; dibi ; trebi; chtvobi ; pouchbi; chon (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th ?). 
He records a Kafir prayer: li I amatch guich , bilim guicha, haloche 
patchemichi ,” (of which there is no translation), and a few religions 
terms of priests, deities, etc. 
Cyrus conquered a tribe named Octpicha, red, on the borders of 
Ghorband and Panjir, This is perhaps the people who made the wine 
known as Capichi or Capisa, renowned about 400 B.C. 
Capus, G.— Quatrieme Gongres International des Sciences Geo • 
graphiques, Paris, 1889. Le Kafiristane et les Kafirs Siahpouches.— 
This gives a long account of the country, habits, customs, deities, etc. 
Tomaschek’s words are quoted “ c’est une langue pracrite pure, qui s’est 
debarrassee des nombreuses inflexions du Sanscrit, et les remplace par 
une agglutination d’elements propres. Toutes les langues du Pamir et 
de 1’Hindu Kouch ont do commun la fat^on de compter par multiples 
de vingt, de sort que 70 se dit 3 X 20 + 10, et 400 devient 20 X 20. II faut 
y voir l’indice d’une base commune non aryenne.” 
Capus, G .—Bulletins de la Societe d’anthropologie de Paris, 1890 . 
Vol. 1, p . 250 — 272.—Kafirs Siahpouches. —The article repeats some of 
the information given in previous articles above referred to. The 
Kafir music noted by him “ est du rhythme trois quatre avec un 
mouvement de valse, et differe completement de la melodie sarte en se 
rapprochant de la kirghize.” In the discussion following the lecture 
it is said u . Si les Kafirs ont reellement une numeration vigesimale, 
leur langue serait la seule langue indo-europeenne ayant une numera¬ 
tion semblable.” 
Central Asia, being a review of several boohs,—*Quatterly Review , 
1S73. —All the scanty vocabularies professing to represent the languages 
of the Kafirs, Kohistanis, Pashais and other pre-Afghan tribes of that 
mountain country shew a good deal in common with a good deal of diver¬ 
gence. ***** Hear again the accurate Elphinstone, “ There are 
several languages (dialects ?) among the Kafirs, but they have all many 
words in common, and all have a near connection with the Shanskrit. 
They have all one peculiarity, which is that they count by scores instead 
of by hundreds, and that their thousand, ^whichthey call by the Persian 
or Pushtu name), consists of 400 or 20 score.” It is suggested that the 
Ashpmsof Kafiristan may be theAspasii, and the Ashkins the Assaceni of 
Alexander’s historians. 
Church Missionary Intelligencer, see Fazl Haqq. 
