Afghanistan, July 1969 – Page 16

He took us in his jeep to the nomads, they were
Pathans [Pakhtuns]  from near Gardez  who came into
Ghrat annually with cloth and belts and [illegible]
trading them for sheep which they then sold in
Kabul. One man with bloodshot eyes and a
dense black trimmed mustache, the other cattarhal
and craggy with intense blue eyes.
They wandered because they have no land
Not true. They would not want it if they had it
they agreed. Good russulman[?] Omllah[?] with them
No leader since they left the mountains. Each tent
equal. Same route through Logar and
Kabul. Left families in Bamiyan.
Wild small of hashish in the tents.
Freedom. Azad. Pakistan had done the
borders. So they go and sit on the borders they
said. ? They would aim to get the cloth. No
payments, and they can’t get them.

Wild long armed boys kneading dough and
wafts of hashish. Smiling at the back of the tents