1837-] An Account of the Tribe of Mhadeo Kolies. 261 



sage by the village dbere to him ; and at the sepoys having so un- 

 ceremoniously threatened him. When the Patell heard cfl Jowjce's 

 saying " that the Patell hao* insulted him," and a few days afterwards 

 that he had quitted his house and proceeded to the jangles, he got 

 seriously alarmed, dreading much that Jowjee would be revenged on 

 him. He consequently proceeded to Joonere, and communicated all 

 that had occurred to the soobahdar. It was very well known that the 

 numerous robberies,, committed in different parts of the country at this 

 period, were chiefly perpetrated by Jowjee Naik's partisans, and the 

 soobahdar, fearing a serious disturbance if Baumlay was allowed to re- 

 main in the jungles, deputed three Naiks for the purpose of explaining 

 matters to him, and to prevail on him to return to his duty at Joonere. 

 He was reluctantly persuaded to adopt their advice, and to accompany 

 them. Jowjee was much thwarted in his expectations at Joonere, and 

 became greatly discontented. A year had scarcely elapsed when the 

 Sawunts, Sindhys, &c. communicated privately to the soobahdar their 

 opinion of Baumlay, stating that he was an unsettled, intriguing and 

 dangerous person, and that his dependants committed all the robberies 

 that took place ; and the only effectual mode of checking such irregu- 

 larities, would be to destroy the root of the evil, and this could be exe- 

 cuted in no other way than by imprisoning Jowjee Baumlay, and mak- 

 ing an example of him. If instead of this they advanced him in the 

 service and invested him with the title of munsubdar and conferred 

 lands on him in freehold, fhat he would be rendered all-powerful, and 

 the result woujd be that he would not rest, till he succeeded in destroy- 

 ing all those who discharged their duty with fidelity to government, and 

 opposed his advancement. The soobahdar, perplexed and undeter- 

 mined as to the measures to be pursued towards such a very untract- 

 able and insubordinate character, was waited on by four staunch friends 

 (one of them a Brahmun) of Jowjee's, who had become acquainted with 

 the advice his enemies had been instilling into the soobahdar's ears. 

 These men pledged themselves in the most solemn manner as securities 

 for his good behaviour, entreating that his life might not be endangered 

 on account of the false accusations of his jealous enemies. 



About this time two of the soobahdar's officers (Brahmuns) were pre- 

 paring to proceed to join the Paishwah's army in the Konkan, when 

 they were waited on by a Brahmun who had a great antipathy to Jowjee 

 and had been plotting his destruction ; he informed these two men in 

 confidence what his plans were, and requested them to communicate 

 them to the Beeny walla, or quarter master general of the Mahratta 

 army, who would finally arrange matters ; he further mentioned that 

 he intended to follow in a few days, and that he would contrive to bring 

 Baumlay with him. It so happened one day that when one of the 

 Joonere officers was settling, with the Beenywalla (also a Brahmun)^ 



