Jesus In India — Page 175
APPENDIX historical evidence has ever been adduced in support of this origin, and it is perhaps a mere invention, founded upon the facts mentioned in 2 Kings xviii. 11. However this may be, all travellers agree that the people differ strikingly from the neighbouring nations; and have, among them- selves, one common origin. They are said, by some, to resemble Jews very much in form and feature; and they are divided into several tribes, inhabiting separate territories, and remaining almost unmixed. 165 EXTRACT 19 History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878, by Colonel G. B. Malleson, C. S. I. (W. H. Allen & Co. London, 1878) Page 39. I turn now to the people of Afghánistán, to the tribes who occupy the country, and who command the passes. The subject has been treated at great length by Mountstuart Elphinstone, by Ferrier-who quotes largely from Abdullah Khán, of Herát,—by Bellew, and by many others. Following Abdullah Khán and other Afghán writers, Ferrier is disposed to believe that the Afgháns represent the lost ten tribes, and to claim for them descent from Saul, King of Israel. Amongst other writers concurring in this view may be mentioned the honoured name of Sir William Jones. On the other hand, Professor Dorn, of