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SCENES IN INDIA. 
betray him. The greater his depravity, if he be but 
resolute, the greater their fidelity; and he has only to 
lead them to plunder to secure their unqualified vene- 
ration. 
The Rohillahs were originally an Afghan tribe, and 
still retain indelible marks of the stock from which 
they sprang. They are a remarkably fine race of 
men, tall and well favoured, compactly formed, hav- 
ing good expressive features, and complexions not 
darker than those of the inhabitants of Southern 
Europe. The Hindoo population of this district, 
though numerically equal to the Mohammedan, live in 
a state of wretched subserviency, having been deprived, 
by the intolerance of those by whom they have been 
subdued, of most of their temples, and forced to suc- 
cumb to the oppression of men who consider law a 
tyranny, and consequently the violation of it no crime. 
