3S Hislorij of the Ramoossies. [Jan, 



ver ornaments from one house worth nine hundred and 

 seventy three-rupees, and from the other, articles of the 

 same description vahied at two hundred and forty-six 

 rupees. 



Again, on the night of the 4th August, the Kykaries plun- 

 dered a merchant's house of Belsur, near Sakoordy, of 

 cloths valued at three hundred and forty-six rupees^ which 

 they handed over to their master. 



On the 22d of August, Oomiah was sent for hy the col- 

 lector and he proceeded to Poona to pay his first visit to 

 Captain Robertson, who had been absent a considerable 

 length of time on sick certificate. 



Oomiah was informed that his pay and that of his follow- 

 ers were increased, and their number augmented from the 

 31st of August, 1829. He was to receive forty rupees a 

 month, Bhojajee thirty, ten Naiks at twenty rupees each, a 

 Karkoon at ten, and one hundred and twenty-two Sibundies 

 at six rupees each. Oomiah and his Naiks were on this 

 occasion presented with cloths to the value of two hundred 

 rupees. He expressed at the time, a great desire to have 

 some copper-plate deeds restored to him which had been 

 taken from him. 



In the month of October, Oujy Naik of Oondry (a small 

 village about four miles south east of Poona) having gained 

 intelligence that a native banker of Kulhan in the Konkan, 

 distant seventy miles from Poona, kept a large sum of money 

 in his house, started with a Bund of Ramoossies for KuUian, 

 and on the evening of the 27th carried olF twenty-nine thou- 

 sand one hundred and fifty-four rupees. A few days after 

 his return to Oondry, Oujy and several of his relations rode 

 to Sakoordy and presented Oomiah with two thousand ru- 

 pees, being the share he was entitled to of the plunder. 

 This money was taken by Kristnajee to Bhewndy ; the man 

 who carried it groaning under the weight. I mention this, 

 as Oujy was seized last year, tried at Tanna near Bombay 

 for being concerned in the KuUian robbery, but was acquit- 

 ted and sent back to Poona. 



A Ramoossy brought information communicated by a 

 Brahmun to Oomiah, that a considera1)le sum of money was 

 about to be sent by a Poona banker to his agents in Bom- 



