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 GENERAL SKETCH OF THE FRONTIER AFGHAN TRIBES,

BRITISH SUBJECTS AND INDEPENDENT.

From Official Reports. ITH the last subject, No. 258, illustrations of the border Afghan tribes have been supplied as far as the Photographic representations extended; but they are far short of including the whole of the tribes or their branches; and, under the interest which exists on the subject, it may be acceptable to the general reader to have some result of local investigation, and reports to the Governments of the Punjab and of India, in a separate form, and with such particulars as can be condensed conveniently from the reports themselves, which are necessarily very voluminous.

In paragraph 2 of Mr. (Sir Richard) Temple's report, the various tribes are classed as follows. It is impossible to make the locality of each understood without a map; but, bearing in mind that the Hazara is the northern district of the Punjab, the tribes will be found to follow in order from that point, the banks of the river Indus; few, comparatively speaking, inhabiting the left bank, and the majority following the right bank, and inhabiting the tract lying between that river and Afghanistan.

I. Independent Tribes, dwelling along the outer face of the North- West Punjab Frontier, and inhabiting Hills.