A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus : By the Route of the Indus, Kabul, And Badakhshan, Performed Under the Sanction of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1836, 1837, And 1838
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From this custom much ambiguity has resulted. It is, however, foreign to my purpose to descant more at large on the wandering hordes that now occupy these wilds; yet so interesting is all connected with these shepherd tribes, which more than once have overrun Europe and Asia, that I 220 JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF [Chap. XIV.
could not omit giving the subject a passing notice.
The Uzbeks of Kunduz have genuine Tartar features, though the physiognomy of their chiefs is becoming softened by intermar...riage with the Tajik, a Caucasian race whom I believe to be the indi- genous inhabitants of Persia, and perhaps of Trans- oxiana also, and who are now found widely scattered on both sides of the Paropamasian chain. A Tajik is not permitted to marry the daughter of an Uzbek; but this unjust distinction is the only social differ- ence that now exists between them. The Uzbeks are Suni Mohamedans, and consider an intolerant persecution of the other sect as the best evidence of the sincerity of their own faith and of their attach- ment to the Prophet.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
From this custom much ambiguity has resulted. It is, however, foreign to my purpose to descant more at large on the wandering hordes that now occupy these wilds; yet so interesting is all connected with these shepherd tribes, which more than once have overrun Europe and Asia, that I 220 JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF [Chap. XIV.
could not omit giving the subject a passing notice.
The Uzbeks of Kunduz have genuine Tartar features, though the physiognomy of their chiefs is becoming softened by intermar...riage with the Tajik, a Caucasian race whom I believe to be the indi- genous inhabitants of Persia, and perhaps of Trans- oxiana also, and who are now found widely scattered on both sides of the Paropamasian chain. A Tajik is not permitted to marry the daughter of an Uzbek; but this unjust distinction is the only social differ- ence that now exists between them. The Uzbeks are Suni Mohamedans, and consider an intolerant persecution of the other sect as the best evidence of the sincerity of their own faith and of their attach- ment to the Prophet.
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