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the Bufiar RajaJis territory would be avoided. Both 

 roads met at Jatpour^ the capital of the country bear- 

 ing the fame name; which town is faid to confid of 

 about five hundred Oorea huts. ^ The old town of 

 Bujlar^ I was informed, had been deferted ; the in- 

 habitants having removed to Jiigdulpour ; under which 

 a confiderable river runs, called the. Inderowty ; the 

 bed of which, at that place, is v«ry rocky, and not 

 fordable. at any period of the year. A fmall fort is 

 fituated in a peninfula formed by the winding of the 

 river; and a deep ditch having been dug acrofs the 

 narrow neck of land, it is conlidcred a ftrong (itua- 

 tion ; but, in the rainy feafon, the river overflows its 

 banks,, and forms a very extenfive lake on all fides. 



The road by Sehowah and Ryegur appearing the 

 only prafticable one, I had refolved, after taking ari 

 adequate fupply of provifions from Conkair, to com- 

 mence upon it : But, on communicating my intention 

 to Saum Sing, he endeavoured to diffuade me from 

 it; alledging, in the firft place, that if I reached the 

 Jaepour gaiil, I iliould find it fhut up, and occupied 

 by a large body of troops belonging to the fon of the 

 late ViziARAM Rauze; who would certainly oppofe 

 me ; and that my party was not only too weak to force 

 a paflfage, but even to preferve ourfelves from being 

 plundered, and cut off. Upon afking the reafon of 

 his being there in a hoflile manner, he told me, that 

 ViziARAM Rauze's country had been taken from him 

 by the Fririghys ;* that the Rajah, with a great many 

 of his people, had died in defence of it, (alluding tO' 

 the atlion near Padnabiiram, in 1794,) and that he did 

 not doubt, but Narrain Bauppoo, his fon, and the 

 remainder of his adherents, would be glad of an op- 

 portunity of retaliating upon me and my party. It 

 appeared, indeed, that Rajah Ramlochun, of Jae- 

 pouj'y had, fubfequent to the death of Viziaram 



Kauze, 



* Europeans, 



