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Appendix I. 
Vol. F.—It is not until 1399 A.U. that the Siah-posh are recognised by 
name. He refers to the “ Kafir epocha ” which Timur discovered (vide 
Timur,) and the interest as to whether the Kafirs still preserve it; and 
notes the fact that Timur’s Expedition was hardly a conquest, as he had to 
beat a hasty retreat. He alludes to Baber’s Expedition to Birain (probably 
Veron), and notes that from that time up to Elphinstone’s Account, 1839, 
nothing is heard of the Kafirs, except the erroneous accounts, (1603), 
by Goes. 
Mohun Ball.—* Travels in Punjab , Afghanistan , etc., London, 1846 .— 
Contains a notice of the Siah-posh Kafirs, but very little as regards 
their language. 
Moorcrofi (William) and Trepeck (George). — Travels in the 
Himalayan Provinces, etc., etc,, Kabul-Kanduz, Bokhara, 1841 ,—The 
district of Gilgit is inhabited by Dardus, evidently the Daradas of 
Sanskrit geography, and Daradoe or Haradroe of Strabo. They are also 
no doubt the Kafirs of the Mahomedans, although they have of late been 
nominally converted to Islam. 
Mullah NajIb. —In (t Kingdom of Cabul ” (Elphinstone) it is stated 
Mullah NajIb wrote a vocabulary (translated.by Irvine) of the language 
at Kamdesh, I have failed to trace it in London. 
Norris, E.— Journal Asiatic Society, Bengal, 1862. —This collection 
of about 90 words obtained from a Kafir in Teheran is considerably 
different from my vocabulary, but about one half agrees, in a measure, with 
the collection of Burnes and Lumsden. In his collection one hundred 
is chal, and one thousand, hazdr. His infinitives end in s, as, veeyaus, to 
beat. 
* 
Norulla, see Fazl Haqq. 
Pauthier, M. G.— Be Livre de Marco Polo, dictated in 1298. Pub¬ 
lished, Paris, 1839. —“ II est voirs que dix journees vers midi loings de 
Balacian, une province qui s’appelle Bacian, qui out langue par eus et 
sont ydolastres et sont brunes genz; ils scevent moult d’enchantement et 
d’art diabolique. Ils sont malicieuse gent et sage de leur coustumes. 
Cette province est moult chaude (froide P). Leur viande est char et ris.” 
Pauthier, in a foot-note, argues that Bacian must have been Paschiai* 
in Kafiristan, with its dialect known as Pachai (Bachai). He refers to 
a statement of the Emperor Baber regarding a small river “ flowing from 
# Masson thinks this cannot bo tho case. 
