19: 



Pannaha Dia- 

 mond Mine. 



Rebellion of 



AGAINST Au- 

 RENCZ£E£. 



G A N G E T I C H 1 N D O O S T A N. 



ceeded only a hundred and forty miles of the deftined march. 

 The author of the IFar in Afia, i. p. 61, affigns a very uncandid 

 reafon, intimating that he loitered on account of the diamonds of 

 which this province is fo productive, at the mine at Patinab or 

 Puma, the PannaJJa of Ptolemy, Tre real fad was, that Lejlic 

 oflFended raoft notorioufly againft his infiruiffions, and without 

 any view of advantage to himfelf, was perpetually interfering 

 with the quarrels of the country chieftains ; but it appears cer- 

 tain, that the march to the river Cane might have been made 

 in ten days, the diftance from Calpy being nearly the fame as 

 that from Calpy to Rajah-Ghur. A refolution had been taken 

 to recal LeJ^ie ; this event put an end to all enquiry, and the 

 command devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Goddard, whofe 

 ihining abilities and active fpirit made him equal to any un- 

 dertaking. 



The army was now fet in motion with the expelled alacrity. 

 It paffed BaJJJree, Chokah, Goorgunga, Morullah, and Darrozvah. 

 At the laft it fell in with a band of Pandurams^ or wandering 

 Faquirs, the peft of Hindoojlan. Thefe vagabonds, under pre- 

 tence of pilgrimages, fometimes affemble in armies of ten or 

 twelve thoufand, lay whole countries under contribution, rob 

 people of their wives, and are guilty of every enormity. They 

 are generally naked, but go armed, and from their rude and 

 fqualid afpect make a moft dreadful appearance. It is remark- 

 able, that they admit any perfon of abilities among them, and 

 inftrudl their difciples in any branch of knowlege, which may 

 make them revered among the vulgar. 



In the reign of Aurengzehe, thofe wretches, under the condu*fl 

 of a rich old woman, named Bijiemia, a(5h.ially raifed a rebel- 

 lion 



