94 DEJEE. 



nerally under the influence of hJmng^ they are 

 not very particular in following out the regula- 

 tion, and the more so as there is no one to 

 discover their neglect, since the Kotwal after 

 his evening meal and postprandial potations 

 is in all probability extended on a charpoy in 

 a happy state of obliviousness. 



About sixteen miles south of Khyrpoor is 

 the hill fort of Dejee, a place of little strength, 

 as it is commanded by a spur of the range of 

 hills that runs from Roree in a south-westerly 

 direction. Thus it must soon be reduced by 

 European artillery, but I have little doubt 

 would be impregnable to the attacks of a native 

 force unprovided with heavy siege guns, as the 

 hill is on three sides quite inaccessible by esca- 

 lade, from being so scarped as to be almost 

 perpendicular ; and on the only accessible point 

 the defences are very strong, the ascent ex- 

 tremely steep, and every step of that ascent 

 commanded by the artillery and loop-holes 

 above. The guns in this fortress appeared to 

 be, however, in a very unserviceable state, and 

 it is now seemingly made use of only as a state 

 prison. On the most elevated bastion to the 

 westward is a very long brass gun, which has 



