1843.] of the Panjab and Afghanistan. 571 



Singh's sepoys. There are eight wells. The head men are Khuda 

 Bukhsh and Khuda Yar, by tribe Bagyals. The revenue is two 

 thousand rupees. 



1st Rajab. — Proceeded seven kos over a plain, and through cultiva- 

 tion to Koohar, a place containing one thousand and 

 Koohar. * * . & 



five hundred houses and eighty shops. Within town 



to the South is a small mud fort that commands it, garrisoned by eight 

 sepoys. There are twenty wells. The head man is Noor Alam Khan, 

 a Kutubshye Awan. The revenue formerly was 2,500 rupees ; it is 

 now 8,000 rupees. 



On arriving I put up in the mosque, where soon after Noor Alam 

 Khan and his son came to prayers. Observing an excrescence on the 



. . temple of the latter, I offered my services to remove 



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it. This was done in a few hours after the appli- 

 cation of a liquid I had with me. For this piece of service, Noor Alam 

 invited me to his house and entertained me; gave one of my men a 

 white shalakee, and on my departure, packed up two days' provisions 

 for me. I learnt that Noor Alam had once embroiled himself with 

 the Sikhs, by killing one of the garrison for some act of tyranny 

 committed. 



3rd Rajab. — Travelled ten kos to Kotala, over a hilly road for 



_ , four kos and through a defile. There is a tank on 



Kotala. & 



the hilly ground. The road is then sandy, and 

 abounding in ravines. To the West is the town of Guzerat. There 

 are eighty four villages dependent on Kotala. The revenue is 5,000 

 rupees. There are two thousand and five hundred houses. The old 

 bazar contains two hundred shops ; and the new one, which has been 

 laid out in two lines intersecting each other at right angles, seventy 

 shops. There are sixty -seven wells for cultivation. The head man is 

 Abdulla Khan, by cast a Gujar. 



4th Rajab. — Proceeded five kos to Rasoolnagar, called by the Sikhs 



Ramnagar, crossing the Chenab. The tow r n is sur- 

 Kasoolnagar. 



rounded by a mud wall, and has six gates, and a garri- 

 son of fifty men, whose yearly pay is 300 rupees ; but they are only paid 

 for ten months. The government of the place is entrusted to Jawahar 

 Singh, who receives on account of pay from the amount of the farm of the 

 thanadaree and adalat 1,900 rupees ; the whole amount being 2,500 ru- 



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