CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

A NOTE ON CLASSICAL ALLUSIONS TO THE DARDS AND TO GREEK INFLUENCE ON INDIA. The Dards.

LEGENDS, SONGS, AND CUSTOMS OF DARDISTAN, [7] ( Gilgit, Yasin,

BUJONI = RIDDLES, PROVERBS AND FABLES. A. RIDDLES. THE NAVEL.

SONGS. THE GILGIT QUEEN AND THE MOGULS. 1. GILGITI SONG.

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. A. AMUSEMENTS.

LEGENDS RELATING TO ANIMALS. [77] 1. A BEAR PLAYS WITH A CORPSE.

GENEALOGIES AND HISTORY OF DARDISTAN.

ROUGH CHRONOLOGICAL SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF DARDISTAN SINCE 1800.

HISTORY OF THE DARD WARS WITH KASHMIR

PRESENT STATE OF MIR VALI.

APPENDICES.

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Note:

Being
An Account of the History, Religions, Customs, Legends, Fables and
Songs of Gilgit, Chilas, Kandia (Gabrial) Yasin, Chitral,
Hunza, Nagyr and other parts of the Hindukush,

AS ALSO A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION OF
THE HUNZA AND NAGYR HANDBOOK

And An Epitome of
PART III OF THE AUTHOR’S “THE LANGUAGES AND RACES
OF DARDISTAN”

By
G. W. LEITNER M.A., PH.D., LL.D., D.O.L., ETC.

(With appendices on recent events, a map and
numerous illustrations)