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“ Upon the heights of Badakhshan, (the border land between Badakh- 
shan and Kafiristan), are four free tribes of Israel, ^those of Naphtali, 
Dan, Zebnlon, Asher.” 
Wolff, Revd. J. (D.D., LL.D.)— Travels and adventures of, 1861 ,—• 
“The Kafir Seeah-posh call themselves “ Seema.” Wolff cannot help 
thinking they are the remnants of the tribes of Israel, for the Jews in 
Bokhara, ^ ## ^**** (who assert that 
they belong to the ten tribes), say tbat these Kafir Seeah-posh are their 
brethren, whose ancestors had entirely forgotten their law and fallen 
into idolatry, but into the ancient idolatry of the Philistines.” They 
call God “ Imrah,” and worship the figure of a fish called Dagon. They 
have in their mountains the ten commandments written in stone, and 
their women observed the law of purification. 
Wood, John. — Journey to sources of the Oxus , 1872, —He concludes that 
the Kafirs are probably of the same race as the Tajiks, the points in which 
they differ being the result of physical causes, not of blood. 
Yule, Colonel H., C.B.— In preface to “ Journey to source of Oxus , 
(Wood), 1872.” —This gives a description of the expulsion of the Yuetchi 
Thibetans, about 16£ B.C.,by the Hiongnu to the Valley of Ili; and, about 
1 A.D., one of their princes Kueishwang extends his rule over certain 
countries south of the Hindu Kush—(the Indo-Scythic dominion). About 
300 or 400 A.D., the Yuetchis or Yethas revive : a great warrior, King 
Kitol or Kitaur, conquers five nations north of Peshawur, including Swat, 
and probably including Kafiristan. 
