910 A few Notes on the subject of [No. 155. 



the hills, combined with other visitations, more especially banditti, 

 harassed the inhabitants by requisitions and losses of all kinds, that 

 place* could boast of 1,200 Brinjarries with their equipage, 200 

 hackeries and their owners, 200 weavers, and 700 families of choo- 

 mars, koormees, lohars, &c, in addition to a large agricultural po- 

 pulation, and the numerous occasional followers of his father and uncle, 

 with other exiles from the hills. 



11. I have thus brought to a conclusion the history of Kumaon, 

 chiefly in connexion with its dependencies in 



NawabvJJeTSd of£: the Wr Ter ' ai > ° the ™ ise Called **"»"' 



British. Reflections there- Munes, and Mdl by the Puharrees, and I be- 

 on and on the state of the * 



country, with allusions to lieve that, however unimportant, the information 

 that part of the Bhabur 

 still included in Kumaon thus given, is for the most part new. Knowing 



little, I can tell little of the further history of 

 the Terrai, and it would be presumptuous in me to intrude on ground 

 which belongs to the Plains authorities.") - The abstract of all the intel- 

 ligence acquired by me on this subject, may however be briefly re- 

 corded. The rule of the Nawab Vuzeer in the Mai Pergunnahs was, 

 on the whole, beneficial, but, chiefly in a negative point of view. The 

 bad government of districts, naturally more adapted for culture and 

 habitation, drove large colonies of people from the south to a region 

 where the background of the forest and the hills could always afford 

 a shelter against open oppression ; where the nature of the climate 

 was not such as to invite thereto the oppressors in whose hand a whole 

 fertile and salubrious land had fallen ; and, where, also, on this very 

 account, the rulers, who did exist, found it their interest to conciliate 

 and attract all new-comers. The management of the territory in 

 question by Nundram and Seeb Lall is generally well spoken of, except 

 in the matter of police ; but, even in this latter respect, the misman- 

 agement was not more injurious to society, than the state of affairs in 

 regard to the forest-banditti became in times not far distant from 

 our own. I believe that it may be confidently stated, that at the 

 commencement of the British rule in Rohilcund, there existed in 



* Roodurpoor was partly ruined by the establishment of the Hill Mundee of 

 Huldwanee, 20 miles nearer the hills, and then completely, by the swamp caused by 

 the Nawab of Ramjwor's Bund. 



f Not only present, but. pas/. 



