^fM^ OBSEEYATIONS EEGARBING 



ftoa of plunder^ which they invariably receive. They are alfo fre- 

 quently fupported by petty Mahajuns, who advance them money at an 



exorbitant intcreflo 



' SoMi of the Badkeks fhare foch booty as they obtain | others receive 

 a monthly Clipcnd of two or three rupees^ from their jummadars, 

 "who alfo feed and maintain them at a confiderable cxpenfc, fupplying 

 them with fpiritumis liquors, of which they drmk inordinately. The 

 jummadars have generally confiderable fams of money at their com» 

 mand, either for immediate expenditure, or for obtaining their releafe 

 by bribery, when apprehended, 



JoRMERLY numbers of Badheh infelled different parts of the Dif- 

 tridls of AlygheVi Etawah, Furruckdbad and Agra. At prefent thofe 

 refiding in the Company's Weflern Provinces are fetded on the eQates- 

 of the Chieftains of Moorjan^ Hatras^ 8cc. m Alygher^ and fome few in 

 the diftrid of Agra, The reft are cftablilhed m great numbers in 

 perguonahs A'troula, Balrampur and Bardick, in the North Eaft quar- 

 terof the territory of the Nawab Vizier, and alfo in the vicinity of Co* 

 had, Pwailor^ Bhertpur, and the country to the wedward of Behli, — - 

 The gangs generally make excurGons once a year, in the profecution of 

 which they journey feverai' haodred .miles. —Thofe in Alygher have-'^ 

 ■ been known to range io Sahdranpurf Haridwar^ Lticnow, Allahahady Be^' 

 nares and Jaypur ; and thofe in Baraich to Chaprah in the diftridt of 

 Saran, to Hazdri Bdgh in Ramgher^ and to Allahahjd. On fome o€cafi« 

 ©ns they travel feparately, and meet at a given fpot, or they follow one 

 another in dets^ched parties, ia which cafe, they faden fhreds of cloth 

 to trees, or pile up mounds of eanh or dung, as marks to guide thofe 

 of their brethren who follow their foot fie ps.— They travel, not unfre- 

 quently, difguifed as fakeers or Pilgrims, with the water of the Ganges^ 

 carrying in their l^atocrs^ ox calkcls, heads of fpears to aria them- 



