 | 1833 - 754 Seiten
...satisfactorily to account for all their physical peculiarities, nor can I look upon these people as any other than the aborigines of the plains, who fled to their present elevated abode in the wars that followed the introduction of Muhammedanism. Kafir means simply an infidel,... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - 1834 - 522 Seiten
...Baber and Abool Fuzzil have made mention of this supposition ; but they have confounded the claims of the chiefs on the Oxus to a Macedonian descent...their customs or religion which seems to be anywise remarkable among a people at their state of civilisation. The hill tribes in India have a religion... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - 1834 - 514 Seiten
...Baber and Abool Fuzzil have made mention of this supposition ; but they have confounded the claims of the chiefs on the Oxus to a Macedonian descent...their customs or religion which seems to be anywise remarkable among a people at their state of civilisation. The hill tribes in India have a religion... | |
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Alexander their appearance and complexion, have given rise to an opinion, that they are the descendants of the Greeks. Both Baber and Abool Fuzzil have made mention of this supposition ; but they have confounded the claims of the chiefs on the Oxus to... 