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can Avith propriety form an unfiivourable opinion 

 from the derivative word Nutkliuf, meaniuo: in the 

 Hindoostance, a rogue, blackguard, &c. Truth still 

 forces us to add, that Nutkjiut is rather anphcable 

 to imaginary than downrso-ht roguery, in expressions 

 of endearment and familiarity. 



I can form no idea of their numbers in Bengal. 

 In many places they have lands, but they are not 

 fliemselves the cultivarors. Burdwan seems to be 

 their great resort ; and when I first entered on this 

 enquiry, I was informed that their chief resided at 

 Chundurkona ; that a woman named Toota, wife of 

 Jooqkhan, their late Nardar Boutah, was consi- 

 dered as chief of all the sects in Bengal. I after- 

 wards learnt from Munbjiungee, the Nardar Boutah 

 of Calcutta, that the above was a misrepresentation; 

 that he and his people were not at all dependent on 

 Chundurkona. He said the men who had been with 

 me before, from motives of fear, concealed his name; 

 that all the Bazeegurs within the Purgunnus of 

 Jusjiur, or Jusiir, Hoogley, &c. were solely: under 

 his controul ; and that the following y.-as the tra- 

 ditional account they had of their ancestors. In the 

 countries of Ghazeepoor, Ullahabad, &c. about two 

 hundred years ago, there were four brothers, named 

 Sa, Summoola, Ghoondra, and Moolla, wlio fincui:g 

 it difficult to support their numerous followers in 

 that part of the country, determined to separate, 

 and to march towards the four quarters of the world, 

 Sa to the east, Suminoolla to the west, Ghoondra to 

 the north, and Moolla to the south ; that Sa arriving 

 in Bengal, took up his residence at /foo^'/ee; that 

 having governed peaceably for many years, he died 

 at UmvLirpoor, near Barasut, where to this day his 

 faithful descendants offer up their prayers to his 

 manes. He had three sons, who succeeded each 

 other; first Lukjnin, the second j\iom';:'en, the third 

 Ghazee Khan. The succession then regularly devolved 

 on Gholamee Khan, Ouladee Khan, Sadee Khan, 



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