56 Descriptive notice of the District of Jhilum. [Jan. 



formerly possessed great influence in the district, and held large 

 Jageers. During the rebellion they went over at Mooltan with Sher 

 Singh, and then proceeded to Dhuni to plunder the country. On 

 Mrs. George Lawrence passing through, they stopped her and com- 

 pelled her to return, demanding a bribe of 1,000 Rs. as the price of 

 allowing her to proceed. For this act of treachery they were impri- 

 soned by Major Nicholson, but contrived to make their escape from 

 his custody during an affray which took place between that officer's 

 troops and the Khabris of Miani. After the annexation all their 

 Jageers were as a matter of course confiscated. The other large towns 

 of Chakhowal are — Bhon a place famous for its brahmans ; Kuriala near 

 which is the source of the Bunnah stream, which flows through the 

 Ghorigalla pass, towards Darapur ; Dudhiala, a large village con- 

 taining a number of Sikh residents chiefly old Ghorcharhas ; and Bad- 

 shahani. The Dhuni breed of horses is now nearly extinct. Syad- 

 pur is a recently confiscated Jageer, which belonged to Kanh Singh 

 Majitia, one of the officers in the Peshawar force. It had been in 

 the possession of the Majitia family since the time of Maha Singh, 

 and ITttam Singh uncle of Kanh Singh, did much to improve the 

 town and cultivate the district, where his name is deservedly popular. 

 The district is commonly called the Lundi Patti, it being said that 

 a certain munshi managed to conceal the existence of this cultivated 

 land, and collected the revenue on his own account, from which cir- 

 cumstance it acquired the name of the ' rogue's strip/ The town of 

 Syadpur contains a well built mud fort, with two bastions and four 

 dam-dammas. The town is immediately N of the Kuringili hill. 

 Trees are very numerous in the vicinity, and are the property of 

 Government. 



Doman is about 5 miles N of Syadpur, and is of little importance 

 except as being on the high road to the Ghorigalla pass. 



It contains a small fort built by Joy Singh Xtariwala, and it was 

 in this, that Major G. Lawrence, was for some time confined. 



It is also remarkable as having been the birth-place of Sher Singh, 

 This district was for many years in the hands of the Atariwala 

 family, and latterly belonged to Chatar Singh. 



The district of Hasola, which is also a confiscated Jageer of Chatar 

 Singh's borders on Syad Kusran and Nurali in the Rawalpindi 



