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tradition was attached, or a story of the bad old times of the Pindaries. 

 He shewed us, inter alia, after much searching, an old Mhowa tree 

 by the road side, the hollow trunk of which was full of water. This he 

 challenged us to empty. " Fill your lotas/' he cried out triumphantly, 

 (for we had often before received rather incredulously his tales of this 

 very tree) " fill your lotas all day long, and there will still remain a cup- 

 ful for the next comer." As the water is sweet, and the hole covered, a 

 spring perhaps rises under this new species of Arbre voyageur. A similar 

 reservoir is described in the Journal of the Bor Khampti expedition. 



The Raja of Baglee honored us with a visit, and finding that we 

 were curious in such matters, gave a short sketch of his history, and 

 desired the Kool Gooroo, to extract from his papers, any thing they 

 might contain regarding the family. The Raja would seem from his 

 putravali to be a Champawut* Rah tore. We could not learn the date 

 of the emigration of his ancestors : and indeed the history of the family 

 is but a barren list of names, till we come to Kakul Das ; who, in the 

 middle of the last century, served with a few followers under the Bho- 

 pal Nawaubs. 



The popular account, of how the strangers first obtained land, 

 appears more romantic than probable. The Nuwaub stuck some very 

 small object, (tradition says a peppercorn,) on the top of a pole, and 

 offered a reward, for whoever should knock it off, without hitting the 

 pole. All having failed, Suktawut Gee, the wife of Salim Sing, the 

 youngest son of Kokul Das' four sons, stepped out, and at the first 

 shot performed the feat: for this, the village of Bamun Kheri was 

 given to her in enam. Baglee, three coss from Bamun Kheri, was at 

 this time in the possession of a Chohan Grassya, named Banki Rao ; 

 who instead of attending to his interests, amused himself daily with 

 boating on a tank, about a mile from Baglee, called the Koomptalao. 

 Salim Sing, taking advantage of this negligence, attacked and took the 

 fort, while its master was absent; and though the expelled chief made 

 one desperate effort to recover it, he was driven back, and the Rah- 

 tores have ever since kept the placet To confirm their power they 



* The Gooroo's tables commence with ten names prior to Jya Chund, the last king 

 of Canoge ; none of which, except the penult have any resemblance to those in Tod's 

 list, or in the new lists elicited from coins, &c. Two princes, Birda Sing and Jutaran. 

 connect Jya Chund with Seoji ; from whom, to Rinmull the names, (allowing for provin- 

 cial spelling,) strictly correspond with Tod. After Rinmull, comes his third son Champa, 

 from whose time, the catalogue is evidently defective,— seven names occupying a period 

 of more than 300 years. 



f The turned-out Grassya's family still reside, I am told, at Mukhsi, a celebrated 

 Jain Tiruth near Ougein, and receive through our mediation some small annuity. 



