90 RETIREMENT FROM PLANTING. 



sought protection . around it. Whole villages swarmed 

 in, and settled on the Boore Dihing river, forming New 

 Juggoon, Kujoo and Ningrew villages on unemployed 

 lands ; but the younger chiefs, indignant at the punish- 

 ment of those more powerful, the Company Sahib Log 

 (so the natives of India call the British East India Com- 

 pany), the desertion of their principal villages, and con- 

 sequent want of laborers for tillage, will, in all proba- 

 bility, go on pursuing harassing midnight attacks, until 

 a check is effectually put in force ; and, for the safety of 

 the traders j both Assam ees or more enterprising for- 

 eigners, we would recommend, that when a possibility of 

 a capture occurs, one and all of them should be removed, 

 either to some spot on the Burampootre or elsewhere in 

 our own possessions, as were the Gohains (princes) on 

 the surrender of the Muttuk country. 



The escape from death appears to have been miracu- 

 lous ; and it was fortunate for Mr. Bonynge that he 

 commanded sufficient presence of mind to lay hold of the 

 choppah bamboo (roof) while the Singphoos passed under 

 him ; equally fortunate was it that the absence of light 

 precluded too minute a search ; for, being a cripple at the 

 time, and overpowered by numbers, he would have, had 

 he been traced, undoubtedly fallen a victim. 



We subjoin particulars of the attack from yesterday's 

 " Hurkaru newspaper :" 



* * * * But now for the escape which, without 

 cant, I must credit Providence for. It was most miracu- 

 lous. In the first place, I went to bed without loading 

 my guns. A while after, a Singphoo teklah (pike bearer) 

 commenced singing; he did the same the night of the 

 robbery of the 529 rupees. I was so forcibly struck 



