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get sufficient for their present wants at Ootroolly, and 

 it was therefore nrra iged that they should proceed to 

 the village that night. This was the l;)th Deceniher. 



Oomiah selecting his cousin and old friend Bappoo 

 Soleseykur and six other Ranioossies, with Nana, Kal- 

 loo, and Laroo, proceeded to Ootroolly.* l^pon arriv- 

 ing within ahout eight hundred yards of the village, 

 Oomiah directed Nana and Kalloo to go to Joggoo's 

 house, to tell Bhyroo Koodly that he (Oomiah) was very 

 anxious to consult him ahout procuring some money, and 

 these men proceeded to the village, hut in the first in- 

 stance they went quickly to the Dherewary, and dis- 

 patched two Dheres v.ith speed to Serwell, to inform 

 Cheemun Singh that they had seized Oomiah and Bho- 

 j'ljee, and request him to join them v/ith all speed. They 

 now went to Joggoo Sinda's house. The door was fast- 

 ened, yet Joggoo and his four sons recognised Nana and 

 Kalloo's voice, but as they had been so long with Oomi- 

 ah, the family became extremely alarmed, thinking that 

 it was the Bund come to plunder them. They were 

 presently induced to open the door, finding that there 

 were only two Ramoossies, Nana and Kalloo, who now 

 told them that they had bro ight Oomiah close to the 

 village, and that they were determined to seize him, but 

 that they wished Bhyroo and Joggoo to assist in exe- 

 cuting their plan. The members of the family still 

 much alarmed and perplexed, told the two Ramoossies 

 that they must consult some others of the inhabitants. 

 Several persons being assembled, it was deliberated 

 whether they had not better seize N?ina and Kalloo at 

 once, and convey them to Bhore.f Upon which it was 



* Before quitting the hills, to remove all suspicion of treachery, Kalloo's 

 cousin Wittoo was left with Bhojajee and the rest of the gang, sev"-;iiteen 

 in number. 



t The villagers had previously sent the village barber to Bhore, to ask 

 whether they should seize Nana and Kalloo. It id to be recollected, both 

 these Ramaossies with many others, had been obliged to fly frosa Bhor^- 



