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and the Jackranee horse have fully answered 

 the expectations formed on their being taken 

 into the service. In the Thur and Parkur dis- 

 tricts there is also a body of Kosah horse and 

 foot, but they are considered as political pen- 

 sioners. The mounted police, if required, would 

 form a body of useful irregular cavalry, being 

 efficiently mounted and well armed. The Sowars 

 are continually to be seen moving about the 

 country, and are the especial terror of all evil 

 doers. In 184:7 a small detachment of the 

 mounted police, under Captain Younghusband, 

 fell in with a large body of Bhoogtees near Kus- 

 more, and at once going at them, sword in hand, 

 cut down twenty-eight, and captured twenty- 

 seven of their number. The marches made by 

 the mounted police were on some occasions most 

 extraordinary. A detachment of these admir- 

 able troops, with some Irregular Cavalry, and 

 DmTiahKhan with some Jackranee horse, march- 

 ed two hundred miles in tliree days in pursuit 

 of the Kulpoor Bhoogtees, yet the robbers 

 escaped. 



The fidelity of the rural police was effec- 

 tually tested at Kurrachee in 1857, when it 

 became necessary to disarm the 21st Native 



