1504.—"The AFGHANS, when they are reduced to extremities in war, come into the presence of their enemy with grass between their teeth; being as much as to say, 'I am your ox.'"[25]—_Baber_, 159. c. 1556.—"He was afraid of the AFGHÁNS."—_Sidi 'Ali_, in _J. As._, 1st S., ix. 201. 1609.—"AGWANS and _Potans_."—_W. Finch_, in _Purchas_, i. 521. c. 1665.—"Such are those petty Sovereigns, who are seated on the Frontiers of Persia, who almost never pay him anything, no more than they do to the King of Persia. As also the _Balouches_ and AUGANS, and other Mountaineers, of whom the greatest part pay him but a small matter, and even care but little for him: witness the Affront they did him, when they stopped his whole Army by cutting off the Water ... when he passed from _Atek_ on the River _Indus_ to CABOUL to lay siege to KANDAHAR...."—_Bernier_, E. T. 64 [ed. _Constable_, 205]. 1676.—"The people called AUGANS who inhabit from _Candahar_ to _Caboul_ ... a sturdy sort of people, and great robbers in the night-time."—_Tavernier_, E. T. ii. 44; [_ed. Ball_, i. 92]. 1767.—"Our final sentiments are that we have no occasion to take any measures against the AFGHANS' King if it should appear he comes only to raise contributions, but if he proceeds to the eastward of Delhi to make an attack on your allies, or threatens the peace of Bengal, you will concert such measures with Sujah Dowla as may appear best adapted for your mutual defence."—_Court's Letter_, Nov. 20. In _Long_, 486; also see ROHILLA. 1838.—"Professor Dorn ... discusses severally the theories that have been maintained of the descent of the AFGHAUNS: 1st, from the Copts; 2nd, the Jews; 3rd, the Georgians; 4th, the Toorks; 5th, the Moguls; 6th, the Armenians: and he mentions more cursorily the opinion that they are descended from the Indo-Scythians, Medians, Sogdians, Persians, and Indians: on considering all which, he comes to the rational conclusion, that they cannot be traced to any tribe or country beyond their present seats and the adjoining mountains."—_Elphinstone's Caubool_, ed. 1839, i. 209. AFRICO, n.p. A negro slave. 1682.—"Here we met with y^e Barbadoes Merchant ... James Cock, Master, laden with Salt, Mules, and AFRICOS."—_Hedges, Diary_, Feb. 27. [Hak. Soc. i. 16.] [AGAM, adj. A term applied to certain cloths dyed in some particular way. It is the Ar. _'ajam_ (lit. "one who has an impediment or difficulty in speaking Arabic"), a foreigner, and in particular, a Persian. The adj. _'ajamī_ thus means "foreign" or "Persian," and is equivalent to the Greek βάρβαρος and the Hind. _mleććha_. Sir G. Birdwood (_Rep. on Old Rec._, p. 145) quotes from Hieronimo di Santo Stefano (1494-99), "in company with some Armenian and _Azami_ merchants": and (_ibid._) from Varthema: "It is a country of very great traffic in merchandise, and particularly with the Persians and _Azamini_, who come so far as there."]