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liis troopers, aud led them again gallantly to the 

 charge. In the 7nelee the two leaders met, but 

 Neas Khan Bahader's horse, receiving a cut on 

 his nose, reared and threw his rider, and in 

 rising to remount he was cut down. On this 

 the Moghuls fled, leaving the Puthans masters 

 of the field. Upon the following morning the 

 Bolarum force was brought up ; the presence of 

 the troops awed both parties into submission, 

 and tranquillity was restored. A few days 

 afterwards the Puthans were ordered to quit 

 the Nizam's dominions, and they moved down 

 to Kurnool, where they settled, and a small 

 body have since been taken into the British 

 service under the denomination of the " Kur- 

 nool Horse." 



The Sindhis, both Mahomedan and Hindoo, 

 are a very superstitious people, and place great 

 reliance on the ability of departed spirits to 

 serve or injure them^ and consequently pay 

 great reverence to the tombs of men of sanctity. 

 Near Shahdadpore, in Chandookah district, is a 

 pair of mill-stones, about four feet in diameter, 

 in a garden on the banks of the Datah canal, so 

 called after him who formed it, Datah Kowa- 

 hur, a man as renowned for his wealth, and the 



