Caption: 'Pozai Khan is a Shinwari and a Mohammaden. The artist to whom we are indebted for the portraits says in connection with him: "The theory that there are people people in the country descended from Greeks, who came to this region after Alexender, is based principally based on the existence of tribes as well as individuals with fair hair and blue eyes. The principal tribes of the kind are in Kafiristan, where they are usually not Mohammedens. But this man Pozai Khan does not belong to Kafiristan; he is a Shinwari, and a Mohammeden. He is described as 'Komb Bandar' but what these words meant could not be clearly understood. He, as well as one of the men with him, had a guitar; they were evidently strolling musicians. His moustache and beard were light and fair, so that one would have mistaken him for 'a fair-haired German'; his eyes were of a bright clear blue color and his skin was very fair. That he was most probably a Russian in disguise was one of the many suggestions made about him. But a man with a very fair moustache and blue eyes is not a likely person to be sent to this part of the world as a spy."
Source: Harpers Weekly.
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