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GHILZYES. Since the Afghan war, and the evacuation of Kabool and Kandahar by British troops, no occasion has occurred of collision with the Ghilzyes, who inhabit their mountains in peace. The Ghilzyes, like other Afghan tribes and clans, belong to the Soonnee sect of Mahomedans, and do not differ from others of the same religious persuasion. They live in communities governed by their own hereditary chiefs, free, independent, and lawless, as their progenitors have been for centuries. Their occupations are husbandry, and grazing sheep and cattle; but all are soldiers, well armed after their national fashion, brave and daring, and not without many virtues.