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Appendix I. 
Gardner, Alexander, Colonel.— Memoirs of. London, 1898.— States 
the Therbah tribe, who live ten days’ march west of Kafiristan, inter¬ 
marry with the Kafirs Siah-posh. Colonel Gardner, about 1826 A.D., 
visited the Khilti (Kti P) race of Kafirs, (outer range and northern crest 
of Hindu Kush), and got as far as the Ghour-i-pir Nimchu. There were 
shown to him “ two marble inscriptions with Arabic characters en¬ 
graved on them, said to have been presented by two kings who reigned 
at Delhi, viz., Mahomed Ghori, and §hahbudin Gliori. There was like¬ 
wise a large slab of green marble, also with an inscription, said to have 
been presented by Timur in person, when he attempted to invade Kafiris¬ 
tan, but got no further than this point. This memorial was erected in 
1398.” 
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According to the Pir, Scythia was the original cradle of the Kafir 
race, and they claim one of the kings of the dynasty of Cyrus as their 
founder. 
The whole of Badakhshan formerly was held by the Kafirs. 
In 1193, when the Mahomedan Government of India was founded, 
Kafiristan was broken up, and Badakhshan was the name given to that 
part from which the Kafirs were expelled. 
Colonel Gardner again visited Kafiristan about 1829 A.D., but, unfor¬ 
tunately, the copious notes and diary which he made have been lost. 
He was informed that, about 1770 A.D., two Europeans (B.C. Mission¬ 
aries) had resided and died in Kafiristan. 
Gheyn, Van den. — Le Yidghah et le Yagnobi. Bruxelles, 1883.-— La 
methode de numeration vigesimale n’est pas d’origiue aryenne. Em- 
pruntee aux populations autochtones des Khavas (les Haspioi d’Herodote 
et les Kasioi de Ptolemee) et encore en usage chez les Khajunas ou 
Boorishkis des Cantons de Yassin, Hunza, et Nagir, elle a fait invasion 
dans un certain nombre de dialectes eraniens de l’Hindou Kusch. 
Goes, Bentode. — Purchas S.; his Pilgrimes, Part III, 1625. —Although 
nothing regarding the language is recorded, it states that Benedictus Goes 
1 < equipped with a table of moveable feasts till the year A.D. 1610 left 
Lahore in Lent 1603.” When in the neighbourhood of Peshawur he 
was informed that “ thirtye days oft' was a Citie named Capherstam 
(Kafiristan) into which the Saracens are not permitted entrance, and, 
if they enter,-are put to death. But merchants are admitted their Citie, 
yet not their Temples, Hee said the inhabitants of that region goe to 
Church all of them ie black * * Hereby Goes supposed that 
