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any difference with others in their profession of the a vegetable more than an animal food diet thoush 
Mahomedan faith; but, owmg perhaps to their they have no objection to eating meat under the 
occupatiou, or Hindoo origm, they have adopted ordinary rules of their faith. 
h. Afghan Tkibes. 
No. 125. Meer Allum Khan, Nowrun 
Khan, Mahomed Gool Khan. 
Chiefs of the Gundapoor clan of Pathans, 
now settled at and in the vioinity of the town of 
Koolachee, on the Indus, in the province of Derajat. 
They are a numerous tribe, who formerly em- 
ployed themselves in trade between Kabool and In- 
dia; hut, in consequence of quarrels with the rulers 
of Kabool, they abandoned Afghanistan, and settled 
in their present locality as cultivators of the soil. 
The Gundapoors are Soonnee Mahomedans, frank 
and hospitable, and free from the vices and treaoh- 
ery of the Afghans of the frontier. 
No. 126. Dooranee. 
The subject of the photograph has little of the 
strongly marked Jewish features of the Afghans in 
general, and they have more of an aboriginal 
character; but his long curly hair and peculiar head 
dress, a thickly quilted cap, round which a slight 
muslin turban is folded, are eharacteristic of the 
lower Orders of Dooranees. They are Mahomedans 
of the Soonnee seet, and are strict and bigoted 
followers of their faith. In diet and habits they are 
not in any way different from other Mahomedans 
of the same persuasion. Brave, frank, and often 
hospitable, the Afghan character is yet deformed by 
many vices, among which treachery and implacable 
revenge are hut too prominent. 
No. 127. Afghan Group. 
The plate gives a good idea of ordinary Afghans ; 
strong, spare, sturdy men, handsome, yet with a 
peculiarly restless and and wild expression of 
countenance. They are industrious cultivators, 
brave and fearless soldiers, and, as merchants, bold. 
and enterprising; but their national character is 
untrustworthy and forbidding. Afghans rarely go 
unarmed and their favourite weapon is the sword, 
or sahre. Many of the Afghans are as fair as 
Englishmen, with ruddy complexions, and blue or 
grey eyes, and their women are undoubtedly very 
handsome. A finer race indeed, physically speaking, 
does not exist; nor, for the most part, a finer 
climate than that in which they dwell. 
No. 128. Khuttuk Horseman. 
The plate represents another man of the Khuttuk 
Afghans, who is a horseman, equipped after the 
fashion of the tribe in armour. Over his turban he 
wears a cap of light steel chain mail, part of which 
thickly quilted with cotton or wool, and fastened 
across his ehest by Straps, descends as far as his 
waist, and, when mounted, protects his back and 
arms. He has bright steel gauntlets reaching to 
the elbow, the leather covering for the hands being 
studded with bosses of steel or brass. His tunic is 
quilted cotton, thick enough to turn a sahre cut, 
and with strong jack boots reaching to the knee 
completes the costume. His arms are a light 
matchlock and sword, and his powder horns and 
bullet bag hang at his waist and on his right side. 
The Khuttuks cannot, however, bring many 
horsemen into the field, and their strength lies in 
their foot soldiers, who are fonnidable in mount- 
tain warfare. 
No. 129. Afreedee. 
The Afreedees are one of the principal frontier tribes 
of the north-west, inhahiting the mountains and 
passes which lie west and south-west of Peshawur. 
They are bold and sturdy soldiers, but restless 
and troublesome, as they always have been, from the 
period of the invasion of Alexander the Great to 
the present time, It is probable that at no period 
of the history of the frontier, have the Afreedees of 
the passes ever been so peaceably disposed as at 
present. Many of them have enlisted in our fron 
tier, regiments, and serve very faithfully and 
creditably ; but it is a question whether the wild 
character of these mountaineers can ever be mate- 
rially changed. 
Of all the frontier tribes the Afreedees are, indeed, 
the most numerous and important. Following the 
line of frontier from the north, the Afreedee territory 
commences in the hills between the Kabool river and 
the Khyber pass, and forms the Western boundary 
of the Peshawur district tili it approaches the lands 
of the Khuttuks, to be descrihed hereafter. The 
Afreedee hills to the south, which are spurs from the 
mountains of Afghanistan, project into the British 
territory, and form the northern boundary of the 
Kohat district. Hirough these hills are two cele- 
brated passes, the Kohat and Jewakee, and upon all 
traders and travellers to the southward the Afreedees 
have levied toll, or black mail, from a very remote 
period of time. To the west the Afreedees claim 
territory nearly to Kabool, and with the Ghilzyes 
are the special Custodians, or, as they affirm, pro- 
prietors of the celebrated Khyber and Khoud Kabool 
passes. The tribe is independent, owing a nominal 
allegiance to the Ameer of Kabool, so long as their 
subsidies are paid, but, in reality, they own no govern- 
ment but that of their own chiefs. 
No. 130. Khwajah Mahomed Khan 
and Son. 
The Khuttuk clans inhabit a tract of hilly country 
lying south and south-west of Kohat, and including 
spurs of the great Sooliman ränge from Dullun, on 
the Upper Koorum river, to Kooshalgurh, on the 
Indus, and from the Bungush valley of Kohat to 
the Wuzeeree lands in Bunnoo. The men represented 
in the photograph are of the Baruk clan of the Khut 
tuks, which holds the most fertile portion of the 
Khuttuk country, and belongs to a respectable dass 
in life. The Baruk Khuttuks are cultivators of 
the soil, and, for the most part, men of settled and 
peaceful habits; other portions of the tribe, however, 
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