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work, accompanied by his wife, hoping to obtain some return for the 

 advances he had made. He dunned and worried them, and to get rid 

 of his importunity, they knocked him on the head and popped him 

 into one of the 80 feet shafts, where he was told to seek gold for him- 

 self ! The unfortunate woman was similarly disposed of. The crime 

 was, however, brought home to the delinquents, who were all transported. 



The yield of these pits in gold is of course very uncertain. The 

 out-turn obtained in my presence from the five pits, in about four hours, 

 would not have given to the individuals employed, more than half an 

 anna a head, but they admitted that they sometimes obtained as much 

 as half a tolah of gold from one ' dooin' in a day, and this would 

 give about Us. 2 a head to the hands employed, and make up for many 

 blank days. From their mode of washing, there must be great waste. 

 I observed it is only very palpable particles of gold that are retained. 

 The grains are irregularly shaped, with sharp angles, and do not 

 appear to have undergone any disturbing process since they were 

 evolved from their original matrix. There is no indication of flatten- 

 ing or rolling out. 



The northern portion of Jushpore, bordering on Burway and 

 Sirgoojah, is a wild mountainous region called Khooria, inhabited 

 chiefly by Korewahs ; some, utterly savage and almost nomadic ; 

 others, somewhat more civilized, living in villages ; but all invariably 

 armed with bow and arrows and a battle-axe. 



In 1818 when Sirgoojah and Jushpore were ceded to the British 

 Government by Appa Sahib, the chief of Khooria, himself a Kore- 

 wah, and claiming to be hereditary Dewan of Jushpore, was in rebel- 

 lion against his Rajah ; and for several years, by savage raids at the 

 head of his Korewahs, both on Sirgoojah and Jushpore, gave much 

 trouble. In one of these expeditions, his son Muniar Singh was cap- 

 tured and detained as a hostage by the British authorities till the 

 death of the old chief, when a reconciliation was"effected L between the 

 Rajah and Muniar Singh, who was restored to his possessions and 

 hereditary office. The policy adopted on the occasion has proved very 

 successful : the dewans Korewahs have ever since conducted themselves 

 peaceably. 



Having expressed a wish to see some of the wild hill Korewahs, 

 the present zemindar of Khooria, a nephew of Muniar Singh's, ap- 



