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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO . • BOOK 1.
[Major Sykes (Persia) devotes a chapter (xxiv.) to The Karwe n Expedition in which he says : " Is it not possible that the Karwánis are the Caraonas of Marco Polo ? They are distinct from the surrounding Baluchis, and pay no tribute."—H. C.]
Let us turn now to the name of Nogodar. Contemporaneously with the Karaunahs we have frequent mention of predatory bands known as .Ari3 z'rdaris, who seem to be distinguished from the Karaunahs, but had a like character for truculence. Their headquarters were about Sijistán, and Quatremére seems disposed to look upon them as a tribe indigenous in that quarter. Hammer says they were originally the troops of
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Prince Nigudar, grandson of Chaghatai, and that they were a rabble of all sorts, Mongols, Turkmans, Kurds, Shúls, and what not. We hear of their revolts and disorders down to 1319, under which date Mirkhond says that there had been oneand-twenty fights with them in four years. Again we hear of them in 1336 about Herat, whilst in Baber's time they turn up as Nztkdari, fairly establishéd as tribes in the mountainous tracts of Karnúd and (Túr, west of Kabul, and coupled with the Hazáras, who still survive both in name and character. " Among both," says Baber, " there are some who speak the Mongol language." Hazáras and Takdaris (read Nztkdaris) again occur coupled in the History of Sind. (See Elliot, I. 303-304.) [On the struggle against Timur of Toumen, veteran chief of the Nikoudrians (1383-84), see Major David Price's illahommedan History, London, 1821, vol. iii. pp. 47-49, H. C.] In maps of the 17th century, as of Hondius and Blaeuw, we find the mountains north of Kabul termed Nochdarizari, in which we cannot miss the combination Nigudar-Hazárah, whencesoever it was got. The Hazáras are eminently Mongol in
Portrait of a Hazára.
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