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History of the Ramoossies. [April 



When Captain Luyken reached Jejoory, the gang were 

 visible "on the Khurry Puthar.* The inhabitants were 

 much disinchned to give any information respecting them, 

 and mentioned in the present instance, that the person 

 seen were some pilgrims. 



The gang sounded their horns, and fired off a few mus- 

 kets by way of bravado, when they saw the detachment 

 reach Jejoory. 



Captain Luyken ascended the Khurry Puthar hill 

 during the night. On reaching the summit after consider- 

 able labour, for the sides are steep, he learned that Oomi- 

 ah and his followers had moved off about sunset, but whe- 

 ther in an easterly, southerly, or westerly direction, no 

 one would inform him. 



It appears from the statements of many members of the 

 Bund, that there was some intention at one time on their 

 part to surprise the detachment, by a night attack ; that 

 the Naik Essoo Neekary of Singhur had even advanced a 

 short distance with about fifty men for the purpose of pro- 

 ceeding to occupy some convenient position to co-operate 

 with the main body ; but on consideration, they thought it 

 most advisable to postpone their plan of acting on the of- 

 fensive. 



The gang halted during the night and the following day 

 on the hills near Mhour and Mandur, and obtained food 

 from the inhabitants of the surrounding small villages, 

 many of whom were Oomiah's most intimate friends. Dur- 

 ing this night and the following, upwards of a hundred men 

 quitted the gang, some of them dreading the consequences 

 of remaining- with Oomiah when they found that active and 

 vigorous measures were commenced against them : it also 



* The hill called the Khurry Puthar maybe about six hundred feet high, 

 and very nearly a mile south of J ejoory. 1 he top of the hill is level, and con- 

 sequently called Puthar, which is a term for any flat elevated district, or plain 

 on a hill. Khurry is the name of the small river which rises near Garady and 

 runs along the pretty little valley of Sassoor towards Baramutty, and joins the 

 Neera a few koss from thence. 



There is a branch which runs off from the northeast extremity of the Khurry 

 Puthar, nearly in a northerly direction, gradually diminishing in size to the 

 village of Jejoory. On the extremity of this shoulder or branch from the main 

 range, is erected the principal temple of Jejoory, and dedicated to the god 

 Khundobah or Khundy Kow. The hill here may be about two hundred feet 

 high. 



