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or grant, of their large possessions, including some of the richest 

 purgunnas and principal cities in the province. 



The revenue, as well as the government, of these districts was 

 assigned over to them and their heirs forever, on condition of paying 

 the Mahralta government an annual tribule of eight lacs of rupees, 

 and furnishing three thousand horsemen armed and accoutred for 

 the public service, to be maintained at the expense of the Guick- 

 war family, agreeably to the feudal tenure already mentioned. It 

 was further stipulated, that on urgent occasions the Guickwar 

 princes should furnish the state with a troop of two thousand 

 cavalry extraordinary, to be paid for from the public treasury at 

 Poonah, and by this treaty one of the family was always to be 

 stationed at the Mahratla capital in command of the Guzerat 

 troops. 



Damajee succeeded his father Pilajee in the sole command of 

 the Guickwar domain, and died only a few years before the com- 

 mencement of the civil wars which carried us into this noble prin- 

 cipality. Damajee left five sons, Siajee Row, Govind Row, Futty 

 Sihng, Monackjee, and an infant prince, with Guickwar added 

 to each name. Damajee having been married some years, and his 

 wife proving barren, he took a second, in conformity to the Hindoo 

 law, which in such cases admits of polygamy; by her he had two 

 sons, Siajee and Futty Sihng. A few months after the birth of 

 the latter, his first wife, so long childless, bore a son, named 

 Govind Row. After this Damajee had several children; Siajee, the 

 eldest, being a lunatic, was set aside from the inheritance, and 

 when we were in Guzerat resided at Songhur, a southern fortress. 

 Govind Row, although in fact a few months younger than Futty 



