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He mentions the Yuetchi (Tartar) invasion over the Hindu Kush 
into Afghanistan and Peshawur. Chinese writers say that about 160 B.C. 
the Yuetchi, (driven out by the Hioung-now), established themselves 
in Transoxiana. 
Shortly after, the Yuetchi chief, Khieou-tsieou-hy, proclaimed himself 
king of all the countries between the Oxus, Hindu Kush and Little 
Thibet. Subsequently the Yuetchi Monarch Ki-to-lo descended south 
- of the Hindu Kush to invade India about 200 A.D. 
Here we seem to have the origin of the name Kator, * * * * 
on the very site of the modern Kafiristan or land of the Siah-poshes. 
Elphinstone, Hon. M .—Account of the Kingdom of Gaubul and its 
dependencies , 1839. Appendix G. —The Caufirs count by scores, not by 
hundreds. Their thousand, (which they call by the Persian and Pushtu 
name), consists of 400 or 20 score. This derivation of their language seems 
fatal to the descent of the Caufirs from the Greeks.* 
Fazl Haqq and Norulla. —Af gh an Missionaries in Kafiristan. Church 
Missionary Intelligencer, December 1878, p. 724; being a reprint of an article 
published in 1865. 
This gives a sample of a popular Kafir song. A man in the village 
of {Bliinu has sold his son to Mahomedans. When the boy has grown up, 
he kills 14 Mahomedans, escapes to his home, and the mother in 
proud delight sings the following song 
Parole bele bato warme lawe 
Badal lowe bele amd bato Ion sousawe. 
TTra pras sagor aman bato warme lawe 
Awdr paras dandaho partus tatakotaive. 
Pa sheristan gangare sutd. 
“ Well done, my lad! Well hast thou fought! 
My old blood was drying up for grief for thee, 
When thy father sold my high-spirited boy. 
And thou hast killed fourteen men and come home again, 
With the bells tinkling on thy feet.” 
* 
This apparently is the language spoken at Shaiclerlam or gihino Begura, 
Nikera, etc. It is not stated what is the dialect. It does not tally with 
my collection. 
* Mullah Najib made a vocabulary of Kafir words which was said to have 
been translated by Irvine. I have failed to trace this. Some writers have asserted 
that the Mullah never penetrated beyond the Nimcka country. 
