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Bralimim's house; and whilst food was preparing for 

 them, Oomiah made the Jossy write two letters, one to 

 the Governor, and the other to the collector at Poona. 

 The letter to Mr. Giberne was not addressed in his 

 usual respectful manner. He wrote in a high and dic- 

 tatorial tone, setting forth that he had been unjustly 

 treated, and that he was forced to fly to save himself ; 

 that although troops had been employed from Ahmed 

 miggur to Sawunt Wary (in the southern Konkan) to 

 seize him, they had completely failed in all their at- 

 tempts. He therefore recommended that the troops 

 should be withdrawn, and that he would then remain 

 quiet ; but that there would be no peace until 

 a treaty was established between him and Gov^^rn- 

 ment. He added also, that he wished an answer 

 to be sent through Kristnajee Naik, &c. and that 

 he would allow the collector eight days, and the Gover- 

 nor fifteen days time, to return a reply to his com- 

 munication. When he and his adherents were thread- 

 ing the dense and solitary fastnesses of the Syadry 

 range of ghauts, entertaining wild ideas of liberty and 

 power, and had dispatched his threatening letters, little 

 did he contemplate the sad catastrophe that awaited 

 him at the expiration of the period which he had named, 

 for he was a prisoner in irons at Sassoor. 



The Jossy had sent off to a village four miles distant, 

 to inform a Jemadar and some Sibundies to come to 

 Oulus without a moment's delay ; the messenger did not 

 mention that the Bund were at Oulus. The Sibundies 

 reached the place about 9 p. m. On approaching the 

 village, two of the Ramoossies who were on the watch 

 instantly ran to inform Oomiah that a detachment had 

 arrived. The gang lost no time in proceeding to an 

 eminence outside the village, taking the Brahmun and 

 the Patell with them. Jemadar Shaik Ghassy repaired 

 with his small party to the Brahmun's house^ and the 



