Perganeh, a village in the Koh Daman of Cabul, is situated near, and built on the same plan as Istalif, a town which has lately acquired a celebrity owing to the afghan insurgents retiring thither from Kabul, and having been stormed and taken by the British troops under General Sir Jno. McCaskill. The houses stand on sites one above another; orchard and vineyards cover the sides of the elevated hills and fill much of the valleys: small towers to which the inhabitants resort in the fruit season are interspersed among them, while clumps of plane trees and groves of mulberrys vary the character of the landscape, the whole forming a combination of beauties seldom witnessed. The people of the country have a proverb, that he who has not seen the district of Istalif, has nothing seen; and even an unprejudiced observer would allow that but few scenes can surpass, nor many equal it for loveliness and fertility. The group firing at a mark, represented on this plate, are of the Huzzareh tribe. They are distinguished from the affghans by their strong Tartar features, and having but little hair on their faces. As a people, they are considered passionate and fickle. Many of them in Kabul are employed as soldiers; numbers gains their livelihood by labour, and other is muleteers and grooms. The long matchlock one of the parties is using is called a Juzzaeel, and its forked rest enabling the marksman to take good aim, they are formidable weapons in mountainous countries, the more so as their range exceeds that of a musket.