ICO OX THE INHABITANTS OF THE 



land, nearly m the form' of a Pagoda, and that another 

 was also erected at the expence of government, by the 

 order of the Honourable the Governor General and 

 Council ; on which h the following inscription : 



' To rh£ memory of-Au(?usTus Cleveland, Esq. 

 Late collector of the districts of L.hausidporc and Raja?7iahaU f 



Who, without bloodshed crthe terrors of authority, 



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l ? .:n ploying only the means of conciliation, confidence, and benevolence, 



Attempted and accomplished 

 T\\z entire subjection of the lawless and savage inhabitants of the jun- 



gluterry of Rujamahall y 

 Whohad longinfestedthe neighbouring land^ by theirpredatory incursions, 



Inspired them with a taste for the arts of civilized life, 



A»d attached them to the British Government by a conquest over their minus j 



The most permanent, as the most rational, mode of dominion. 



The Governor General and Council ot Bengal, 



In honour of his character, and for an example to others, 



Have ordered this monument to be erected. 



Ke departed this life on the 13th day of January, 1 784, aged 29. 



Bef.ore I conclude, I must do the mountaineers 

 .the justice to mention, that they have as great a re- 

 gard for truth as any people on earth, and will 

 ^sooner die than. deliberately tell a falsehood. In this 

 J must confine myself to those; who have not associ- 

 ated or ; mixed in conversation with their neighbours, 

 the Hindu and Mmsehnan of the plains j where it is well 

 known, lie and interest are synonymous terms : and 

 what change in this respect a more familiar intercourse 

 will occasion, I shall not pretend to premise. 



They are in general of a cheerful disposition, and 

 humane: both men and women are remarkably bash- 

 ful. When asked to sing (their notes are wild and 

 drawling, having a slow cadence, from forte to 

 piano ).or dance, they ever answer, that ihey can da 



neither 



