9 History of the Ramoossles. [Jak. 



" turned out" to join Suttoo, and resolved to link their 

 fortune with his. They continued wandering among the 

 hills, &c. evading the parties of the Police sent in pursuit 

 of them. They occasionally committed robberies, and by 

 the end of the year 1823, their party consisted of nine or 

 ten Ramoossies. They gradually added to their number, 

 for they wished to strike at higher game than they hither- 

 to had ventured upon. For the purpose of effecting the 

 object they had in view^ they moved quietly to the Sing- 

 hur hill, and their emissaries having procured correct in- 

 formation of the amount of cash in the Government trea- 

 sury at Bamborrdy, (the village on the south side of the 

 I'iver and opposite to the town of Poona,) Suttoo Naik 

 detached the gang consisting of thirty men under chai-ge 

 of Oomiah, &c. on the night of the 24th of February 1824, 

 to carry off the prize. There was a strong guard of Sibuu' 

 dies over the treasury which was a square building with a 

 court, and on one side of the square had a wall 14 feet high. 

 The gateway had been fastened long ere the Ramoossies 

 arrived ; whilst in doubt as to what measures should be 

 adopted, Kristnajee and Wittoo Naik stepped forvv^ard and 

 scaled the wall. One of these descended into the court 

 and cutting down the sentry, opened the gateway for the 

 Test of the gang ; a skirmish ensued in which two sepoys 

 were wounded and one killed, the doors of the apartments 

 in which the other sepoys were sleeping, were fastened by 

 the gang. They then carried oif about six thousand, two 

 hundred rupees, — two of Essoo Neekary's (the Singhur 

 Naik's) men were wounded, and one of Oomiah's men re- 

 ceived a severe blow with a bludgeon from a Sibundy. 

 Oomiah mentioned all the particulars of their proceeding 

 on this occasion. The largest portion of this money fell 

 to the share of Oomiah, Kristnajee, &c. A considerable 

 sum was presented at the shrine of the god Khundobah, 

 on the Khurry Puthar near Jejoory ; and a sum of equal 

 amount placed before the goddess Blioany of Kondunpoor 

 near Singhur. Several of the persons who had joined the 

 gang for the occasion, and who subsequently fled to a 

 distance, were seized by the Poona Ramoossy Naiks, and 

 between seven and eight hundred rupees \vere recovered 

 from them. 



