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bottom, by falling: on each others arm, several of them were killed, and 

 the rest desperately wounded, among- the latter was MallmhyputtY, 

 a very active and enterprizing man, and brother to the before men- 

 tioned Wurdoojce Khonmey. He, however, managed to crawl away 

 from the spot, and conceal himself under some bushes, and during 

 the following nioht he crceped to a small village in the neighbour- 

 hood, where he had a friend who took care of him, and dressed his 

 V'oumls ; at the expiration of two months he recovered suffiiciently 

 to enable him to return to Singhur, where he learned the melancho- 

 ly tidings of his wife having destroyed herself. The detachment on 

 reaching Singhur, after their failure at Poorundur, mentioned, that 

 so many had been killed of their party, the rest so badly 

 wounded, tl»at they could not move from the place, and as a de- 

 tachment from the garrison had Rallied forth to attack them, they 

 would of course, put to death any wounded men they might have 

 discovered. These sad tidings so afflicted and distressed the wife 

 of Mallmhyputty, that she resolved on not surviving her husband, 

 and made up her mind to terminate her existence as a suttee, which 

 »he accordingly did. 



Seevajee soon made another effort to gain the Poorundur fort, and 

 succeeded. The Kolies residing near the hill fort, as well as the 

 Mhars have been employed many years as watchmen to guard the 

 approaches to the place, and the Ramoossies must have been includ- 

 ed in the list of hereditary servants and defenders of the fort about 

 this time. 



After Seevajee's death, as he could not, during his active and 

 bustling life, reward all those who had faithfully and ably served 

 him ; and his son's (Sumbajee) misfortunes prevented him doing so. 

 Sahoo Rajah determined on bestowing suitable rewards on the de- 

 scendants of those who had contributed to the establishment of his 

 grandfather's kingdom ; and on the part of the Poorundur Ramoos- 

 sies, Dhollia Bhandolkur (an ancestor of the Naiks of Sassoor, and 

 father of Cheembajee, who was killed at Sassoor,) a shrewd and in- 

 telligent man, was deputed to Satara to wait on the Rajah, upon 

 which occasion His Highness issued orders for a consideraVjle quantity 

 cfjand being granted to the Poorundur Ramoossies, together with 

 themookkassa of the village of Sakoordy, which they still enjoy, 

 and a portion of the land. It is said that when the Ramoossy Naiks 

 laid the Rajah's order for the above grants before the Peshwah, Bal- 

 lajee Visswanath (who was, in fact, at this time supreme ruler,) told 

 them that the Rajah must have committed some mistake, for that 



