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had been the more violent, as they were itirfiulated 

 by hatred against the Zemindars, for having cut off 

 several of their chiefs by treachery. The Colonel 

 might have added, that, during that interregnum or 

 dissolution of government, it was a common practice 

 for the Zemindars on the skirts of the hills to invite 

 the chiefs in their vicinity, with their adherents,' to 

 descend and plunder the neighbouring Zemin Janes - 9 

 for which, and for the passage through their lands, 

 the mountaineers divided the booty with them. Thus, 

 at one time, from repeated acts of treachery in the 

 ZerhmaarSy the mountaineers were provoked to take 

 ample vengeance on them, and their unhappy ryots ; 

 and at other times, from their engaging the chiefs to 

 make predatory incursions, to which they were 

 strongly incited, no less from a desire of plundering 

 their more opulent neighbours, than from die diffi- 

 culty of obtaining salt and tobacco from the hauls, 

 all friendly intercourse was at a stand ; the low coun- 

 try bordering oh the hills was almost depopulated, 

 and travellers could not pass with safety between 

 Bhaugiilpcre and Furruckabad, nor could boats, with- 

 out danger of being plundered, put to for the night 

 en the south "side of the Ganges between the before- 

 named places. It was at this period of double treach- 



6n the part of the Zemindars, and predatory hos- 

 tilities on the part of the mountaineers (from which 

 it may not be a strained inference, that the machina- 

 tions of the former were in a great measure, the 

 cause or that necessity which compelled the latter to 



h frequent and fataJ descents, when these public 



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