364 MAJOil W. HODSON. 



Feroze Khan received his other balances ; and to it is 

 attached a note to the effect that Feroze Khan had really 

 received 50 rupees, 49 of which had been paid by Lieutenant 

 Hodson himself. Nujjuf AUee denied having added this 

 note, but the natives who had condemned his book before 

 the court decided that the handwriting of the note was 

 certainly his. 



32. It must be remembered that the duffadar who sold 

 the 200-rupee horse given to Feroze Khan, and another 

 duffadar who eventually received it after Feroze Khan's 

 departure, are present with the regiment, while the whole 

 circumstances of the case are known to so many that there 

 is no room for the supposition that the truth has not been 

 arrived at. Add to this that Feroze Khan himself, when 

 questioned by the court, professed himself quite satisfied as 

 far as his money dues were concerned ; for I believe the 

 root of the whole matter to have been that he had no mind 

 to part with his original horse, and that he did not like the 

 higher-priced horse given him in place of it half as well. 

 It appears, however, that Lieutenant Hodson did give him 

 opportunities of saying this if he wished it, but he did not 

 avail himself of them, though perhaps at heart dissatisfied. 



33. With regard to the idea that the Chunda fund had 

 suffered by having to purchase a 200-rupee horse instead 

 of a 150-rupee one, which without some explanation might 

 have an injurious effect with those who have no exact 

 knowledge of the working of a Chunda fund, I would put 

 the case thus : — 



34. Setting aside the case of a commanding officer, who 

 had better have nothing to do with a transaction of the 

 kind, suppose a subordinate officer to wish to purchase a 

 horse from a sowar in the ranks, and to apply to his com- 

 manding officer for permission to do so, he would probably, 

 if he obtained leave, be directed to be careful to give the 

 man a full and fair price for the horse, or an equally good 

 one in its place, would he not then be thought to have 

 done the thing handsomely if he gave a 200-rupee horse 

 in place of a 150-rupee one ? And would not the whole 



