The Races of Afghanistan Being a Brief Account of the Principal Nations Inhabiting that Country

At that time Sistan or Sajistan as it is written in native books comprised all the country from the head waters of the Tarnak and Arghasan rivers and the Toba range of hills on the east to the Nih Bandin range of hills and Dashti Niummed—Desert of Despair—on the west ; from the valleys of the Helmand and Arghandib rivers on the north to the Khoja Amrin range and the Baluchistan desert on the s [...] of Sakistan Sagistan Sajistan Sistan from the Saks who were probably the same people as the Saki liamuvarga metioned in the tables of Darius (see Rawlinson's Herodotus) — Sika dwellers on the Halal " or Amfi which has from the earliest times been the name of the lower course of the Oxus fiver ; the latter term being the Greek form of Wakhsh which is the name of the Upper Oxus above the po [...] And we know from the records of history that apart from the transfer or displacement of populations consequent upon prior irruptions of Scythic hordes from the north-east there took place about two centuries earlier or during the fifth and beginning of the sixth of our era a very powerful emigration of an Indian people from the western bank of the Indus to the valley of the Helmand and its tri [...] It is posible indeed that the Solymi of the ancients and the Afghan of the moderns were originally one and the same people and that the Bani Israil were merely refugees among them for at the time of their first settlement in Ghor they were always spoken of separately as Bani Afghina" and " Bani 'Bra" By the people of India and of the East generally the Afghan is more commonly known by [...] Ten years later again 1747 the conqueror of the Panjab and the author of the massacre of Delhi was assassinated just as he reached the Persian border laden with untold spoil renowned as the coqueror of the age and execrated as the rival of those ruthless scourges—Changhiz and Tymur.