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Statisiical Report on the 



[No. Z5, 



taught to write in sand, and then he furnishes himself with a black 

 toard and a pencil of steatite. The punishment for the remiss and 

 negligent are flogging and a species of picketting. Their tasks in 

 reading consist of exercises in some parts of the adventures of Hams 

 and Krishna, subjects on which all Hindoos can meet with unanimity, 

 nor are Mahometans so shocked v/ith these legends as to prevent 

 their children from being instructed. 



State of litigation and Tl^^ inefficiency and the mal-administratlon 

 Crime— Police. justice renders it very difficult to estimate 



precisely the state of litigation and crime. The resort to the Pun- 

 chayet is the usual mcde of terminating disputes of a civil na- 

 ture, but even this, in itself a very excellent mode of settling disagree- 

 ments if left to work independently of all influence, is rendered un- 

 satisfactory by the superior authorities often claiming the right to 

 name the Surptcnch. There is a cazee who has a village in enam 

 near Warungul, but from his ignorance and want of education, being 

 unable to read or write, he is incapable of performing the duties of 

 his office, there has been in consequence a paid functionary ap- 

 pointed: his salary is 70 or 80 rupees. 



There are two divisions of police, the village police — who under 

 the name of musTcoree receive in large villages a rupee a month and 

 seme grain ; they are ofl*sets from the Dhers, and the govern- 

 ment police, who assist in collecting revenue, &c. for which they get 

 three rupees a month. There are a few Arabs in the Circar who 

 receive large pay, varying from rupees 12 to rupees 15 a month. 



There are no streams of any importance in 

 the Circar. On the north they feed the Goda- 

 very or its confluents : on the south the Moosy and Kishna ; they 

 are all without names, and, saving the rivulet issuing from the Pak- 

 hall tank, are dry nullah beds a few weeks after the rains have sub- 

 sided. But though of insignificant body, these streams are abun- 

 dant, and supply the numerous tanks, which are the great and cha- 

 racteristic feature of this portion of Telinganah. 



^ ^ The Pakhall lake has been frequently mention- 



ed — it is sometimes called a Tank, but from exa- 

 mining the bund I conceive that its bed must have contained water 

 previous to the erection of any artificial embankment. There is a myth 

 regarding it — that the hills about it which contain the water were raia- 



