MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. 4.— July, 1834. 



' ""^ ' It- 

 Continued from page 159. 

 I. — A Sketch of the History of the Ramoossies residing in the 

 Saitarah Territory and in the Poona and Ahmednuggur diS' 

 tricts — By Captain Alexander Mackintosh of the 21th Regf, 

 M. iV. /. Commanding Ahmednuggur Local Corps. 



Continuation of CHAP. III. 



However strange all this inconsistency may appear, it is easily 

 accounted for. Human nature is much the same every where. 

 The Ramoossy robber having been apprehended, he naturally enough 

 is anxious to escape the consequence of his trial for the crime of 

 v/hich he stands accused; many of these are bold, cunning, and 

 clever, practised in their profession, and well acquainted with the 

 ways of the world ; while others of them, of course, are not so gift- 

 ed, nor so experienced. An unsophisticated character while labour- 

 ing under the agitation excited by the new and alarming situation 

 in which he is placed, will frequently give a detailed and faithful 

 account of all the proceedings connected with his delinquency. As 

 much time generally, but necessarily, elapses before a prisoner is 

 finally committed and brought to trial in this country, the prisoner 

 ere long learns from some source that his associates in the late affair, 

 who are in confinement, have resolutely denied all knowledge of the 

 business ; upon further consideration, the unfortunate man thinks 

 it best, and more becoming, to deny the truth of what he had pre- 

 viously confessed ; and he will state that it had been extorted from 

 him. On the contrary, if he denied knowing any thing of the mat- 

 ter at first, and he should shortly afterwards hear some of the sepoys, 

 or any other prisoners, talking over the business, and discover or 



