Note 13 — LEGENDS, SONGS, AND CUSTOMS OF DARDISTAN,[7] (Gilgit, Yasin, Hunza, Nagyr, Chitrál, &c., and Kafiristan).
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Possibly this legend is one of the causes of the unfounded reputation of cannibalism which was given by Kashmiris and others to the Dards before 1866, and of which one Dardu tribe accuses another, with which, even if it should reside in a neighbouring valley, it may have no intercourse. I refer elsewhere to the custom of drinking a portion of the blood of an enemy, to which my two Kafirs confessed.—(“Dardistan,” Part III.)