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their dismissal, and told them they should have no communication with 

 me until I visited them in their own village, backed by the sepoys. 

 The day after my interview, I commenced the road and placed the 

 coolies under a sufficient guard to protect them against any attack, or 

 surprize of the Garrows. On the evening of the first day at the con- 

 clusion of our work I was gratified by seeing waiting my arrival at my 

 tent, three or four of the chiefs of the nearest villages, who had come 

 to tender me their services, and that of their followers, and I willingly 

 accepted them. 



The next day they brought down 50 followers, and with their assist- 

 ance we contrived to complete a very tolerable day's work. On my 

 return towards camp I was met by several other chiefs who came to 

 tender their services, and on the fourth day of our labour, there was 

 not a single chief ot the Cheannee tribe who had not subscribed his 

 quota of workmen towards clearing the road. 



On the evening of the 4th day of my work, I received intelligence 

 from the messengers I had sent to the Dusannee Garrows that their 

 chiefs would meet me at Bengal Katta for the purpose of making their 

 submission, and I determined to proceed there without delay, leaving 

 the construction of the road to Mirza Luskur and the chiefs of Ram- 

 pannee. 



I attribute the chiefs joining me so soon in the construction of the 

 road after their decided refusal, to the circumstance of their seeing that 

 I was determined to carry out my object, and also that if they wished 

 they could not hold out when I had ready access to their villages and 

 could with ease bring up my supplies. 



The route from Bhogamara to Bengal Katta lies for the most part 

 over low hills and swampy ground at the base. These swamps are 

 caused by the flooding of the Jingiram, which leaves a deposit on the 

 banks and consequently raises the land above the level of the surround- 

 ing country, and the drainage from the hills having no free outlet, the 

 intermediate space becomes a mass of swamp incapable of cultivation. 



With a little expense and judicious warping the whole of the country 

 at the foot of these hills might be raised above the floods of the 

 Jingiram, but at present it is a desolate waste. The exact boundaries of 

 the purgunnah of Kaloomaloopara with respect to the mehauls of 

 Cheannee and Dusannee has never been laid down, and wherever a ryot 



