380 Account of Pergunnah Malioba, Zillah Humeerpore. [No. 4. 



(Bassia latifolia) which furnishes the native spirit sold in the 

 bazars ; the mangoe, as is usual this side of the Jumna, being of 

 very rare occurrence. The former governments greatly encouraged 

 planting all kinds of trees, granting patches of land rent-free for 

 the purpose to any one who would take them. 



Animals. 



The gradual clearing away of jungle, and increase of culti- 

 vation have naturally thinned the number of the larger beasts 

 of prey in Mahoba ; w r olv^s and hyenas are still, however, found 

 in some quantity, as the annexed list of rewards given by Go- 

 vernment during the last twelve months for their destruction 

 will show. Those killed in Jeitpore are included, and I doubt not 

 many have been brought away from the Independent Territory close 

 by ; but it proves the existence of a considerable number still in 

 the neighbourhood. Leopards are occasionally brought in, and 

 rumours of tigers are sometimes spread, but I have never heard of 

 one being actually killed in the Pergunnah. In the year 1855 head 

 money was paid for 16 leopards, 415 wolves, and 239 hyenas, amount- 

 ing to Company's Eupees 1,781. Wild pigs find cover in the hills, 

 and occasionally commit much damage to the cultivation. Antelope 

 also are numerous, while the tanks and lakes furnish every species 

 of wild fowl to the sportsman. 



Roads. 



The great road, leading from the Doab to Saugor, and Cen- 

 tral India, passes through Mahoba; a branch from Humeerpore 

 joins the main line from Banda at Kubrai, whence it traverses 

 the Pergunnah till it crosses the Oormul Nuddee into the Chutter- 

 pore territory at Kaimaha ; at Sreenugger it turns off to the canton- 

 ments at Nowgong ; and from Mahoba Proper there are also roads 

 to Soopa, Chirkharee and Bareegurh, which are annually repaired. 

 When His Honor the Lieutenant Governor was at Banda last year, 

 it was proposed that the road from thence to Nowgong should be 

 metalled and the matter is now under consideration. I have there- 

 fore drawn up a tabular statement of the traffic which passed along 

 it last year (Appendix No. II.) from monthly returns of the road 

 chowkies at Jhur Kaimaha, from which the number of each species 

 of convevance can be seen at a glance. The returns from the East- 



