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6. Presun or Viron; a very ancient people, inhabiting V 
6 villages, speaking a language different from 
the Siah-posh, a language which, according to the 
Kam opinion, “no one can ever learn.” They 
differ from the Wai or Asjhkun. 
) Safed-poah. 
7. Wai; in 10 villages; their language differs from the 
Siah-posh or Presun. 
8. Ashkun; in 2 villages; their language is some 
what like the Wai. 
“ That the Kafirs are made up of different races, appears certain : 
that they have no admixture of Tartar blood seems obvious ; that they 
came from the west, or at least the great majority of them, is their 
own fixed idea and is more than probable.” 
Describing the women’s head, dress and its appurtenances he says, 1 ‘ I 
have seen on the brass thimbles short English expressions such as ‘ Eor 
a good girl.’ These were the only printed or written words I ever found 
in Kafiristan,” 
Robertson, Sir G. S .-—Manuscript vocabulary of words, outlines of 
grammar, and sentences , and idioms; Kafir into English , 1896-7. —This 
is the most comprehensive collection which I have seen, and contains 
many valuable idioms. I understand that in all essential matters Sir 
G. Robertson’s collection agrees with mine. 
Sadik Isfahani. — Geographical works of. — No. iL'—Takwim-al-Baldan. 
London, 1832. —This, (written about 1635), mentions Katur (or Siah 
poshan, the country of persons who wear black clothes), situated on 
the confines of Kabul. 
Sytjd Shah. MunshI, vide Hughes, Revp. 
Tanner, Major. — Kafiristan and the Kafir language. Pro. P.O.S., Vol. 
I of 1879, p. 713. —The language of the Chuganis is like that of the 
Kafirs. 
Mr. W. Jenkins, Assistant to Sir L. Cavagnari in Kabul, was, at the 
time of his death, employed in working up the language of Kafiristan. 
Tanner, Colonel H. C.— Notes on the Ghuganzs and neighbouring 
tribes of Kafiristan. Pro. Royal Geographical Society, 1881, p. 279. —In 
the preparatory remarks on the above lecture, Dr. Oust stated that the 
purely philological portion of Colonel Tanner’s notes was reserved to be 
dealt with by Dr. E, Trumpp (Professor of Munich), and would be pub¬ 
lished by the Royal Asiatic Society. Colonel Tanner gives a few 
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