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on stone slabs in the Indus valley, east of Swat, which have been examined 
by a Congress of Orientalists who can only pronounce that they are in an 
unknown tongue. Possibly they may be of a vast age, for the opinion 
is pronounced that they recall a Greek alphabet of Archaic type, and it is 
a possibility that the characters inscribed may prove to be the forgotten 
form of the Nyssoean dialect. 
In a verse of a Kafir war hymn quoted in the article, (one of a classi¬ 
cal and Bacchic type), the references show that the Kafirs owned part at 
least of Badakhshan, and revered the hill Meros, the mountain of Bacchus 
near Nyssa. 
Kafiristan has only been partly explored. Who can say what may be 
discovered in future explorations ? The Kafirs may perhaps in the 
future be proved to be “ the modern representatives of that very 
ancient Western race, the Nyssoeans, so ancient that the historians of 
Alexander refer to their origin as mythical.” 
Hughes, Bev. T. P., and Syed Shah, Munshl.— Account of a visit of 
the latter to Kafiristan, Church Missionary Intelligencer , July 1883. —“ To¬ 
day was' the Kafir Sabbath or Sunday, Aggar. No work is done on this 
day by men or women.” The few Kafir words which are given, all 
correspond with those in my collection. 
Jukes, Worthington, Revd. (late of C.M.S.)—ri manuscript voca» 
hulary (about 30 pages') of Kafir words and sentences, names of men, women , 
villages, rivers, etc., taken a few years ago, from a Kafir who had left his 
country, for Laghman, six years \previously .—This collection agrees very 
fairly with mine, though some of the grammatical renderings differ. 
In this collection Kafiristan is rendered by Katon gil ( gol, gul ?) “ the 
Kator valley ” (P). 
Klaproth.—' Tableaux Historiques de VAsia, 1876, p. 132, ete.—The 
language of the Petits Yue-tchi was identical with that of the 
Ehiangs or Thibetans. The ancients knew them as the Indo-Scythians* 
Their capital was Kian-chy-tching% and their chief abode, south of the 
Oxus, known as Koei and Gooi. 
Lassen, 0 ,—Indische Alterthumshunde, 1867, —Has very interesting 
chapters on the history of the countries near the sources of the 
Upper Oxus. 
Leech, R., Lieut., R.E.— Journal Asiatic Society, Bengal, August 1838, 
and Transactions , Bombay Geographical Society, Vol. J.—This contains a 
vocabulary of Pashai words—168 words, 20 numerals, 9 short sentences— 
