■1- Notes of a tour in the Tributary Melwls. [No. 1, 



of Coles and others of the primitive races, whose services they have 

 secured as their farm labourers, and who are not allowed to hold lands, 

 hut are paid for their labour at the rate of three seers of dhan per 

 diem, and a modicum of clothing doled out annually. 



The soil in this part of Gangpore -is exceedingly rich, producing 

 magnificent crops of sirosha, sugar-cane, and tobacco, besides the staple 

 rice. The plants of the country tobacco grown by the Aguriahs are 

 the finest I ever saw, and they grow more cotton than they require for 

 their own use, though they do not stint themselves in raiment. I am 

 certain the soil and climate is well suited for the finer kinds of cotton. 



Proceeding north up the Eeb from this, the Arabia Felix of Gang- 

 pore, we came again upon untidy Bhooya villages, and their patches of 

 cultivation, separated by miles of 'the monotonous Sal forests, and there 

 is no change in the features of the country or the population, till we 

 come to the estate of Bhugwan Manjee, which, as above mentioned, 

 does not appear as if it belonged to Gangpore, as it is separated by a 

 range of hills, and approached by a very narrow and difficult pass. We 

 are still amongst Bhooyas, but here they speak Hindi instead of 

 Ooriah, and the peculiarities of Ooriah costume and decoration are 

 rarely met with. 



Jushpose. 



The small state of Jushpore, though specially mentioned as a cession 

 to the British in the agreement taken from Appa Sahib, after his 

 defeat at Setahbuldee in 1818, has hitherto found no place in any pub- 

 lished map. In the very latest issued from the Surveyor General's 

 office, a few scattered villages of Jushpore are inserted as if contained 

 within'the boundaries of Sirgoojah, but the name of the estate is not 

 given, and the chief town, where the Rajah now lives, is not down. It 

 is singular how old the information must be, from which some names 

 have been inserted on the maps of the unsurveyed parts of India. 



Konkale appears in large letters in about the centre of the tract 

 which should be called Jushpore. It is now an insignificant hamlet, 

 but there is the trace of a fort, where resided an ancestor of the 

 present Rajah. The present capital, Jugdispore, is about two miles to 

 the north and west of it. 



Jushpore is bounded on the north by Burway of Chota-Nagpore ; 

 south by Gangpore and Oodeypore ; east by Chota-Nagpore ; and west 



