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An Account of the Tribe of Mhadeo Kolies. 



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the manner in which it would be most advisable to dispose of Baumlay, 

 one of Jowj^e's emissaries overheard the consultation, and immediately 

 proceeded with all speed to communicate to him the danger impending 

 over him, and convinced him that their object was to deceive him, when 

 they pressed him to join the army with his Kolies, as they would great- 

 ly aid in recapturing some of their forts ; but that their real intentions 

 were for his destruction, as they had determined to persuade him 

 and his Kolies that their services would be required in the attack of the 

 Seeddie of Junjeera; and, under this pretext, they were to embark 

 Jowjee and his friends, and when the vessel was out some distance at 

 sea they were to sink her. The instant Jowjee learnt the particulars of 

 this plot against his life, he fled again to the jungles (Raanburry), being 

 satisfied that, if he continued longer at Joonere, he would be assassinat- 

 ed. Therefore to protect himself against the attacks of his enemies, 

 and to force the government to comply with his wishes, he began to 

 assemble his followers for the purpose of levying contributions from 

 the inhabitants and to plunder travellers, &c. When the Joonere soo- 

 bahdar heard this, he lost no time in detaching a party of Sibundees to 

 seize his family, which they succeeded in doing, and brought them to 

 Joonere, where they were placed in confinement. The troops in pursuit 

 of Jowjee pressed him closely, and rather than exasperate the soobahdar 

 too much, and thinking it might be of service to his family were he to re- 

 main quiet for some time, he quitted the district and went toCandeish. 

 When a considerable length of time had elapjed, he determined to send 

 some of his kinsmen to the Joonere jungles, to gain someintelligence of 

 his family ; accordingly seven Kolies set out secretly for their homes to 

 pick up information for their Naik, and learn something regarding 

 their own families. In this party there were two brothers of Jowjee, 

 Dadajee and Soorajee Baumlay, also a cousin. The seven friends had 

 arrived within a few koss of Joonere, when they unluckily encountered 

 Bowjee Sawunt, who had been employed with a detachment to capture 

 Jowjee Baumlay, and was consequently moving about the country at 

 the time. Sawunt seized the seven Kolies, and sent them prisoners to 

 Joonere. The people in authority, wishing to separate the brothers, 

 Soorajee Baumlay was imprisoned in Herst, and Dadajee, and the 

 other five Kolies, in the fort of Chaound. When Jowjee was 

 informed of his friends having been seized and thrown into 

 prison, he immediately advanced to the banks of the Moull 

 river in the Kotool district, where he remained concealed ; but exerted 

 his best endeavours to rouse his friends to use their influence to obtain 

 the release of his family, and those that had been seized by Sawunt. 

 As Jowjee was persecuted by the Sawunt family, he watched every op- 

 portunity of striking a blow at either of the brothers, for he had lat- 

 terly discovered that the Sawunts were urging the soobahdar to put 



