1835.] 



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accompany him to Sakoordy. Oomiah threatened to seiza 

 ©very one of the party, and to send them to Poona to be 

 tried for the robbery they had committed. He succeeded 

 in extorting a sum of five hundred rupees in cash, and a 

 promissory note for one hundred more, from Hunmuntoo^ 

 who compelled his associates to pay a portion of the de- 

 mand. Oomiah no doubt wished to convince the people 

 of his supremacy, and now - seized Hunmuntoo's brother 

 and several of the party, and actually forwarded them to 

 Poona, where they were tried and condemned to hard la- 

 bour. A few days after Hunmuntoo paid the money, 

 which he effected with great difficulty, Amrootah, an elder 

 brother of Oomiah 's, proceeded to Panoury and plundered 

 his house and maltreated his family. 



Having still a hundred rupees to pay of the fine, and 

 being completely disgusted with Oomiah's conduct, and 

 by the distress and misery which he had caused, not only 

 to himself, but to several of his friends, Hunmuntoo at 

 length resolved to quit his village, and to be revenged on 

 Oomiah in return for the ill-treatment he had experienced 

 at his hands. 



A detachment of the 11th Regiment was employed un- 

 der the collector's orders to apprehend some Ramoossies 

 who had committed robberies in the vicinity of Poona ; 

 with this detachment there was a Ramoossy named Rannoo 

 of Yewut, well known at Poona during Mr. Elphinstone's 

 residence in that city. Hunmuntoo having communicated 

 with Rannoo, under a promise of a pardon being extended 

 to him, (for his participation in the robbery committed in 

 September 1829, at Poona,) engaged to make known some 

 important particulars respecting the robbery which took 

 place at Wurgaun Bhandy in May 1830, when the Brah- 

 mun was killed. Matters being thus far settled, the de- 

 tachment in the course of a short time seized several of the 

 Ramoossies who had been engaged in this robbery ; but on 

 the representation of Hunmuntoo, that two men of this 

 party were living under the protection of Oomiah, the offi- 

 cer commanding the detachment sent a note to him, call- 

 ing on him to deliver up the two men in question ; but as 

 Oomiah detained the messenger, the officer seiit his de- 



