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An Account of the Tribe of Mhadeo Kolies. 



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municated the state of affairs to Jowjee, and mentioned that Sawunt 

 had arrived at Joonere, but, as the day was not propitious for him to 

 return to his own house, lie was putting up with a friend. Jowjee, 

 always on the qui vive, repaired in the evening with seven of his men 

 to the vicinity of the house, occupied by Sawunt. They saw him look- 

 ing on at a procession that was passing near him ; they watched a 

 convenient moment, rushed upon him and killed him. 



Some time previous to this, he met a man who was in the confidence 

 of Raghobah Dada ; Jowjee persuaded him to represent to Raghobah 

 Dada that he could be of great service to his interests among the hills, 

 if His Highness would only issue his orders to him. 



About this time Nana Phurnavees was very anxious to get Jowjee 

 Baumlay apprehended; he sent for the mokassdar of Joonere, Dadjee 

 Kokata, and explained his wishes to him, adding that, as he was one of 

 the pensioners of government, it was a part of his duty to aid in pre- 

 serving peace in the country. Dadjee expressed his readiness to afford 

 such assistance as he could, but said that, to enable him to succeed 

 against such an enterprising and influential person as Baumlay, the 

 government must furnish him with two orders. The first must be to 

 call on him to exert his influence with his Koly kinsmen to restore 

 order in the country, and authorising him to offer any of the discon- 

 tented Naiks to get their affairs adjusted at Poona, and that he had 

 sufficient interest to obtain service for them, provided their claims 

 should appear satisfactory. The second was an order, authorising him 

 to destroy J.owjee Baumlay if he could in any way contrive to entrap 

 him. Kokata was furnished with the necessary documents to assist 

 him in executing the villanous plot he had in contemplation. A few 

 days afterwards Kokata and his three sons accidentally encountered 

 Jowjee Baumlay with a few followers in the jungle of Muddossy in the 

 Ghorenahir ; it occurred to Kokata to try to gain Jowjee's confidence, 

 and he accordingly joined him ; both he and his sons talked in a grum- 

 bling disaffected manner to Baumlay's people, and seemed to sympa- 

 thise with them, regretting that none of Jowjee's friends had shown 

 more zeal in his behalf in petitioning government to investigate the 

 subject of his grievances. When they had been sitting some time con- 

 versing together, Baumlay proposed going to the river to bathe. Ko- 

 kata took off his clothes and hung his jholna (bag used by natives for 

 keeping beetle, &c.) on the branch of a tree, as there w r ere no persons 

 near the spot but some of Baumlay's men. One of these from curiosity 

 peeped into the jholna, in which he saw some papers having the im- 

 pression of the government seal ; he took one of them out, and as Jow- 

 jee's man of business, a Mahratta, besides his cousin Black Baumlay, 

 were near, they read the paper and discovered that it was the order 

 authorising Kokata to put Baumlay to death. They replaced the paper 



