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a natural bason of rock. After seeing the number oi' large rivers 

 and small rivulets which disembogue into the Myhi, il is no longer 

 wonderful that its impetuous torrent, in the rainy season, should 

 carry down such a quantity of timber, cattle, Avrecks of villages, 

 and sometimes their inhabitants, from the inundated plains. 



The general produce of the country hitherto appears to have 

 been juarree, wheat, barley, chena, hemp, and sugar-cane; but 

 none in great abundance, nor indicative of a large population. 



I pass over a number of disputes and quarrels detailed in the 

 journal, between Holcar, Bhim Sihng, and other petty sovereigns 

 in those districts. These, and various historical anecdotes were 

 related by the Charruns, a caste of people very much resembling 

 the Bhauts at Neriad, Zinore, and other parts of Guzerat. ThcChur- 

 runs were formerly said to live only in that province, but about thirty 

 years before several of the tribe, during the distress of a grievous 

 famine, tied for subsistence to Malwa, and settled under the pro- 

 tection of different powers. They formed considerable villages in 

 the territory of Jaboo, Jeswant Sihng, and the rajah of Umjeree. 

 A village belonging to these Churruns, on the banks of the Myhi, 

 had been lately plundered by a petty rajah, on the pretence of 

 their having assisted the Gracias in their depredations for some 

 unjust demand. A party of the injured Churruns were now at 

 the village where we encamped, on their way to Dhar, to solicit 

 reparation ; which if they do not obtain, several of them, accord- 

 ing to the custom of their caste, are determined to commit suicide 

 in the city, and shed their blood at the doors of the people Avho 

 refuse to redress their injuries. The guilt of the blood of this 

 tribe is deemed an inexpiable crime, and a very severe curse 



