. . . . . 42,000 Ditto
Paska . . . . . . 20,000 Ditto
Kumeear . . . . . 48,000 Ditto
___________________________________________________________________
Churda . . . . . 62,000 Falling off
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Gonda Pergunnah.
___________________________________________________________________
Desumberpoor. . . . 95,000 Rajah Davey Buksh, in
Good order.
Bhinga. . . . . . 64,000 Recovering.
Akkerpoor. . . . . 46,015 In good order under
Ramdut Pandee.
Sagha Chunda. . . . 1,20,729 Ramdut Pandee, in good
order.
Birwa . . . . . . 24,000 A little out of tillage.
___________________________________________________________________
_December_ 12, 1849.--Gungwal, thirteen miles. The road lay through
the estate of Pyagpoor to within a mile of Gungwal. Little
cultivation was to be seen the whole way, and what we could see was
bad. Little variety of crops, and the tillage slovenly, and without
manure or irrigation. The tallookdar was ruined by Rughbur Sing, and
is not on terms with the present Nazim, and he did not appear. The
estate of Gungwal is not better cultivated than that of Pyagpoor; nor
better peopled--both may be considered as mere wastes, and their
assessments as merely nominal. The tallookdar did not appear. Both
were ruined by the rapacious Nazim and his atrocious agents,
Goureeshunker, Beharee Lal, Kurum Hoseyn, and others.
The Rajah of Toolseepoor, Dirgraj Sing, has an only son, Sahibjee,
now 17 years of age. The Rajah's old servants, thinking they could
make more out of the boy than out of the prudent father, first
incited him to go off, with all the property he could collect, to
Goruckpoor, where he spent it in ten months of revelry. The father
invited him back two mouths ago, on condition that he should come
alone. When he got within six miles of Toolseepoor, however, the
father found, that three thousand armed followers had there been
assembled by his agents, to aid him in seizing upon him and the
estate. Fearing that his estate might be desolated, and he himself
confined, and perhaps pu
|