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On the Inhabitant* £ 



before them. Their resolutions are put into immediate execution, if thej 

 relate to war j if to other matters, they feaft, ting, dance, and get drunk. 



Their chiefs debate the fubject of deliberation, and their wives on 

 thefe occafions have as much authority as the chiefs. This I had an op- 

 portunity of feeing, when I fettled vthe revenue they had to pay, having told 

 them, they would be well prote died from any ©ppreffion, while under me, 

 and that no more mould be taken from them, than was finally fettled : fome 

 of the chiefs wifhed -to pay an inadequate fum., when Mom be, wife to the 

 principal chief, rofe, and fpoke for fome minutes, after which fhe afked me 

 if I declared the truth to them, and on my replying in the affirmative, they 

 agreed to the revenue I demanded,; Sujani, wife of another chief, then 

 came to me, and told me, I had heard what fhe had fufFered from th? op- 

 preffion of the Zemindars, and begged, with tsars ia her eyes, that I would 

 get juflice done to her. I made a particular inquiry into her complaint, 

 and made the Darogah of the pais reftore her cattle; and fo much confi~ 

 -dence had they at lafl in me, that they requeued I would make a fair divi- 

 fion of their lands, which they would never fuffer the Zemindar or his peo- 

 ple to do» 



Their mode of fettling their proportions of payments, &c. is by flicks *. 

 ■each of the inferior Garrows places as many Hacks in a pan, as he can give 

 of the article required: the whole are then counted, and the deficiences made 

 jip by the Booneabs : all their accounts alfo are kept by flicks, as well as 

 ■their agreements. 



I have before faid, on occafions of illnefs a facriflce is made to the deity : 

 I .endeavoured to Jind out what medicines they ufe, but I cannot fay I have 



