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164 JESUS IN INDIA called himself Bin-i-Israel, and had forty sons, whose names there is no occasion to insert. His thirty-fourth descendant, in a direct line, after a period of two thousand years, was Kys. From Kys, who lived in the time of the prophet Mahomed, there have been sixty-six generations. Sulum, the eldest son of Afghana, who lived at Sham, left that place, and came to Ghura Mishkon, a country near Herat; and his descendants gradually extended themselves over the country now called Afghanistan. EXTRACT 18 A Cyclopædia of Geography Descriptive and Physical, form- ing a New General Gazetteer of the World and Dictionary of Pronunciation, by James Bryce, M. A. , F. G. S. (Richard Griffin and Co. London and Glasgow 1856) page 11. The name Afghan is not used by the people them- selves; they call themselves Pooshtoon, and in the plu- ral Pooshtaûneh, from which, perhaps, comes the name Putan, or Patan, given to them in India. They trace their origin to Saul, King of Israel, calling themselves, Ben-i- Israel. According to Sir A. Burnes, their tradition is, that they were transplanted by the King of Babylon from the Holy Land to Ghoré, lying to the N. W. of Cabool, and lived as Jews till A. D. 682, when they were converted to Mahometanism by an Arab chief, Khaled-ibn-Abdalla, who had married a daughter of an Afghan chief. No