HILLS NEAR RA'jAMAHALL. ICVJ 



and private incendiaries were making large strides in 

 ruining these once fertile districts ) that Captain 

 Brooke was stationed with a corps of light in- 

 fantry, to avert their utter destruction. On this 

 duty, it is well known that he acquitted himself with 

 great credit, from his uncommon exertions and suc- 

 cess in pursuing the unfortunate mountaineers unto 

 their hills, where numbers must have unavoidably 

 fallen; for it became unquestionably necessary to im- 

 press them with a dreadful awe of our prowess : and 

 in this harrassing and unpleasant watfare, I have 

 been well informed by officers who were with Cap- 

 tain Brooke, that his gallant conduct could not be 

 too much commended. He made them sensible of 

 the inefficacy of opposing him in the field, and invited 

 the chiefs to wait upon him and negociate ; when he 

 gave a feast to those who came, and made them pre* 

 gents of turbans ; but before any permanent establish- 

 ment took place, he was succeeded in the command 

 of the light infantry by Captain Browne, who 

 made further progress in conciliating the minds of 

 the discomfitted mountaineers. He placed them on 

 the road from Furruckubdd^ near Colgong, to protect 

 the Ddwks, on which duty they still continue. From 

 this and other measures of his, Captain Brooke 

 and he, it will be allowed, laid the foundation for the 

 most permanent and happy settlement concluded 

 with the hill-chiefs by the late Mr. Augustus 

 Cleveland, that could possibly be attained. He 

 was sensible, from the rapine and decay of these dis- 

 tricts.thatthe peaceable deportment of the mountaineers 



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