50 A narrative of our connexions with [Jan. 



of the plains cultivates the zemindar claims the revenue, although I am 

 fully persuaded that he has no right to it. It appears to me an object 

 of the first importance that these boundaries should be accurately laid 

 down to prevent any future litigation. 



About 6 miles from Bhogamara, en route to Bengal Katta, are the 

 ruins of the palace and city of the Rajah of Bissondor, which, from 

 their extent and numberless tanks still extant, must have been a place 

 of no small importance in days long gone by. Not one brick now 

 remains on another, of any building except two small Hindu temples, 

 similar to those dedicated to Nursing at this place. They are still in 

 tolerable preservation. Although I made every inquiry in the mofussil 

 I could obtain no information respecting this place, except that the 

 Rajah* flourished long before the occupation of the country by the 

 Moguls, and was a man of great wealth and power, who held the Garrows 

 in complete subjection. I had no time to examine the ruins minutely, 

 but it would amply repay the curiosity of any person who would do so. 

 I merely mention the circumstance now, that any person who travels 

 that route again may know that such a place is in existence, and had I 

 been aware of it I certainly should have made arrangements for halting 

 at Goalgunge to inspect the ruins. The route from these ruins continues 

 over the same kind of country to Bengal Katta, which is situated on 

 the banks of the Jingiram, and a little below where it is joined by the 

 Rungi river. 



My interviews with the chiefs, and the result. — I have already 

 communicated in my letters Nos. 21 and 22 of the 29th January, and 

 3rd February last, and it merely remains for me to say, that having 

 been assured of the good faith of the tribe, I had only to proceed against 

 the rebellious village of Kissoogiri, the heads of which had refused all 

 my overtures of pardon and forgiveness, if they would come in and sur- 

 render the murderers. I halted at Bengal Katta 5 days in order that 

 the chiefs might clear the road I directed them to undertake, and on 

 the 24th of January, it was reported ready, and we commenced our 

 march accordingly, and reached Buldagiri the same day, when I received 

 intelligence of the whole of the Kissoogirians having fled. I then 



* May it not have been the residence of Mansing, who was Governor of Bengal, 

 and built the magnificent stone ghaut at Doobri, distant about 15 miles from this 

 spot ? 



