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Full text: A classified and descriptive catalogue of the Indian department, Vienna Universal Exhibition 1873

wbo inhabit the mountains, are a pastoral people, 
wilder and more restless than the cultivators, and 
differ little from Afreedees and other mountaineers. 
No. 131. Mullik Ensal. 
The Yaga Kheyl, to which the subject of the pho- 
tograph belongs, is aclan of the Wuzeerees, a frontier 
tribe of the Derajat, a province lying south of Kohat. 
They are for the most part a pastoral people. In 
the hot summer months they retire with their cattle 
to the mountains, inhabiting tracts varying from 
4,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. In the winter 
they descend into the Derajat, and theplains beeome 
dotted with their herds and ilocks, and with their 
black blanket tents pitched in groups like villages, 
and moved from place to place aecording to their 
necessities for forage and water. 
No. 132. Mahsood Wuzeerees. 
The present photograph shows three members of 
the Mahsood division of the Wuzeerees, who do not 
differ from the others in any essential respeet. They 
are armed with sword and shield, which appears to 
be the favourite equipment among them.
	        
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