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is called a protected State, — that is, we 

 protect the Rajah, and he plunders his 

 subjects. The whole country is divided into 

 districts, each of which is farmed by a 

 Fundar, who is responsible to the Rajah for 

 a certain amount of revenue. For this 

 appointment he pays perhaps two or three 

 thousand rupees ; he has thus to screw the 

 money he has paid, the revenue, and his own 

 profits, out of the poor villagers. I once 

 sent to a woman (whose husband had been 

 drowned in my service) a sum of money ; 

 the men of her village, when I gave them 

 the money, at once said that the Fundar 

 would seize it, which he would doubtless 

 have done, had I not directed them, in the 

 event of his attempting to do so, to come 

 down to Wilson, whose name sufiiced to 

 protect the widow, as he often appeals to the 

 Rajah in the behalf of his people, and the 

 old Rajah always attends to his advice. 



The Jumnootrie villagers being rather 

 farthest ofl", occasionally resist the Rajah's 

 myrmidons, and have often told us, that they 



