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work, accompanied by his wife, hoping to obtain some return for the 
advances he had made. He dunned and worried them, and to get rid 
of his importunity, they knocked him on the head and popped him 
into one of the 30 feet shafts, where he was told to seek gold for him- 
self! The unfortunate woman was similarly disposed of. The crime 
was, however, brought home to the delinquents, who were all transported. 
The yield of these pits in gold is of course very uncertain. The 
out-turn obtained in my presence from the five pits, in about four hours, 
would not have given to the individuals employed, more than half an 
anna a head, but they admitted that they sometimes obtained as much 
as half a tolah of gold from one ‘ dooin’ in a day, and this would 
give about Rs. 2 a head to the hands employed, and make up for many 
blank days. From their mode of washing, there must be great waste. 
I observed it is only very palpable particles of gold that are retained. 
The grains are irregularly shaped, with sharp angles, and do not 
appear to have undergone any disturbing process since they were 
evolved from their original matrix. There is no indication of flatten- 
ing or rolling out. 
The northern portion of Jushpore, bordering on Burway and 
Sirgoojah, is a wild mountainous region called Khooria, inhabited 
chiefly by Korewahs ; some, utterly savage and almost nomadic ; 
others, somewhat more civilized, living in villages; but all invariably 
armed with bow and arrows and a battle-axe. 
In 1818 when Sirgoojah and Jushpore were ceded to the British 
Government by Appa Sahib, the chief of Khooria, himself a Kore- 
wah, and claiming to be hereditary Dewan of Jushpore, was in rebel- 
lion against his Rajah ; and for several years, by savage raids at the 
head of his Korewahs, both on Sirgoojah and Jushpore, gave much 
trouble. In one of these expeditions, his son Muniar Singh was cap- 
tured and detained as a hostage by the British authorities till the 
death of the old chief, when a reconciliation wasveffected, between the 
Rajah and Muniar Singh, who was restored to his possessions and 
hereditary office. The policy adopted on the occasion has proved very 
successful : the dewans Korewahs have ever since conducted themselves 
peaceably. 
Having expressed a wish to see some of the wild hill Korewahs, 
the present zemindar of Khooria, a nephew of Muniar Singh’s, ap- 
