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Goosseijns, not content Avith driving them away, 

 al)usctl and plundered the whole party, to a consi- 

 derable amount. 



The old priest Oodassee, on his return to the Seek 

 camp, complained to Rajah Saheb Sing, their chief, 

 in the name of the body collective, of the insult and 

 violence they had met with from^the Gooascyns. 



A consultation was immediately lield by the three 

 chiefs of tlie Seek forces, viz. Rajah Sauej5 Sing of 

 Puteealdh, and Roy Sing and Shere Sing of Boo- 

 7\'ah, Avlio silenced the complainants by ])romising to 

 demaiid redress and restitution for M'hat they had been 

 plundered of. 



A vakeel v/as immediately dispatched, with a re- 

 presentation, from the Seeks to the Jilehunts, or 

 priests of the Goosseyns, pointing out the right, they 

 conceived they possessed, in common with all other 

 nations, to have access to the river; and complaining 

 of the wanton insults they had met with, from their 

 tribes, when in the peaceable execution of their duty: 

 however, as they had no remedy, to make amends for 

 some part of the ill treatment they met with, yet they 

 demanded an inmiediate retribution of all they had 

 been {)lundered of, and free access to the river or 

 place of bathing. 



The Mekunts heard their complaints, expressed 

 concern at what had happened, and promised their 

 assistance, in obtaining the redress sought for: and 

 the matter, for the present, rested here: the Goos- 

 sei/ns giving back, to the Seeks, all the plunder they 

 had taken, and admitting of their free ingress and 

 eirress to the river. 



'iD' 



All was pretty quiet, during the few remaining 



days 



