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pends on the rains. The head of the place is Malik Ghulam Rasool, 



by tribe a Katar. The governor, a Sikh, by name Man Singh, had 



that day forced the daughter of a Musselman gold- 

 Sikh tyrannv. .,•««•.,,,. i , , ,, , 

 smith, lhe inhabitants rose and took to arms, killed 



one of Man Singh's attendants, and severely beat the governor him- 

 self, forcing him to flee, and then took away their families to the 

 hills, as did all the neighbouring villagers, coming down at night and 

 watching their fields and houses, armed. The village was so deserted, 

 that I did not think it safe to put up in the mosque, but spent the night 

 with one of these armed parties in a house in the purlieus. I after- 

 wards heard that the outrage here mentioned was brought to the 

 knowledge of Runjeet Singh, but I know not whether the aggrieved 

 obtained redress or not. 



18th Jamadee-ussanee. — Made a stage of eight kos, over a road 

 much broken with ascents and descents, and ravines. 

 Tahlan, a place consisting of seventy houses, and con- 

 taining two Hindoos shops ; fourteen Cashmeer dancing boys had 

 also taken up their residence here. The name of the head man is 

 Allanoor, by tribe a Jat. This place is dependent on Rawul Pindee. T 

 spent the night with the Cashmeerees. 



19th Jamadee-ussanee. — Proceeded seven kos over ascents and des- 

 cents, and through ravines and jungle, in which I lost my road, and 

 had to wait at a tank, until a herdsman coming to water his cattle, 

 set me right to Talan, a village on a rising ground, 

 containing two hundred houses, fifteen Hindoo shops, 

 and four of shoemakers. The inhabitants are weavers of coarse cotton 

 and woollen cloths, and pay a revenue of 1000 rupees. There are eight 

 wells. The name of the head man is Nasarulla. Here I was detained 

 two nights on account of the indisposition of the Persian writer. 



2 1 st Jamadee-ussanee.— -Three kos to Chotra, which is a place con- 

 taining 300 houses of Musselman s, and forty of 

 Hindoos, situated partly on an eminence, and partly 

 on the bank of the river Sawan. There are forty weavers, partly 



Cashmeerians and partly natives of Patwar. The 

 River Sawan. 



revenue is 1,200 rupees, lhe river is very deep, 



and not used in cultivation, which is carried on by means of forty 



wells. There are two head men named Habo khan, by tribe a Budhar, 



