The London Illustrated News has shared the following info about them:
"The name (Siah-posh Kaffir) denotes nothing more than 'Black dress infidels', as they are called by their Mohammoden neighbours, referring to the shaggy tunic of black hairy goatskin in which these men are usually clothed. The bare-headed man in this attire, with a dagger in his right hand appears just as he did when he brought down to Peshawar. The one with an axe, standing by a small tree or bamboo, with a turbaned Swati seated below, is the identical person now with Dr. Leitner in London. His name is Jamshed from Katar, is the Hindoo Koosh; he has blue eyes and reddish hair. He was captured in youth, with others of his family, by the Cabul slave-traders; and his uncle Feramore rose in the service of the Ameer of Cabul to high military rank, but was murdered in his camp near Herat in the civil war against the Ameer's rebellious son, Prince Yakub Khan."
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ReplyDeleteGood advice. Manana
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