1835.] 



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determination of displacing him from the situation he held 

 in the police of the Poorundur district. 



I may be allowed to state, that I received a letter from 

 the Secretary to Government on the afternoon of the 1 7th 

 October, by which I was directed to proceed immediately 

 from Ahmednuggur to the Mhabelleshwur hills to wait 

 upon the Governor, where I learned that it had been final- 

 ly determined that Oomiah should for the future reside at 

 Poona ; that his pay of forty rupees a month should be 

 continued, and that his brother Kristnajee should be plac- 

 ed in charge of the men at Sakoordy. Oomiah was to be in- 

 formed that he would be allowed eight days to prepare for 

 his removal to Poona, and at the expiration of that period, 

 should he not conform to the orders of Government, that 

 the troops would be employed against him to compel him 

 to submit. 



I was called on to furnish a memorandum of such mea- 

 sures as it might be considered advisable to adopt, in case 

 of its being necessary to commence operations against this 

 troublesome character ; and at the same time a detachment 

 from the force stationed at Poona was ordered to hold it- 

 self in readiness to march on the shortest notice. Oomiah 

 however deemed it prudent to obey the order, and he re- 

 paired to Poona v/ith his family on the 5th November, be- 

 ing the last day of the period allowed to him. 



The Patells of five villages in the Poorundur district en- 

 tered into security that Oomiah should remain at Poona, 

 and not quit the place without the permission of the ma- 

 gistrate ; and Government advanced two hundred rupees 

 for the purpose of building a house for him. 



Hopes were entertained that he would now become gra- 

 dually reconciled to a quiet and peaceable life ; and that 

 he v/ould submit to the restraints to which he had been 

 subjected, yet an indulgence in such expectations evinc- 

 ed a want of knowledge of Oomiah's real character. 



It was natural for him to long for the society of the 

 friends he had left in his native hills, where he was a per- 

 son of consequence ; and the recollections of the bustling, 

 and to him interesting, scenes he was in the habit of enjoy- 

 ing at Sakoordy^ mu.^t have rendered his residence at Poo- 



