Several of the villages of Sundeela are held by Syud zumeendars, who are peaceable and industrious subjects, and were generally better protected than others under the influence of Chowdhere, Sheik Hushmut Allee, of Sundeela, an agricultural capitalist and landholder, whom no local authority could offend with impunity.  His proper trade was to aid landholders of high and low degree, by becoming surety for their punctual payment of the Government demand, and advancing the instalments of that demand himself when they had not the means, and thereby saving them from the visits of the local authorities and their rapacious and disorderly troops:  but in an evil hour he ventured to extend his protection a little further, and, to save them from the oppressions of an unscrupulous contractor, he undertook to manage the district himself, and make good all the Government demand upon it.  He was unable to pay all that he had bound himself to pay.  His brother was first seized by the troops and taken to Lucknow.  He languished under the discipline to which he was there subjected, and when on the point of death from what his friends call a broken heart, and the Government authorities cholera-morbus, he was released.  He died immediately after his return home, and Hushmut Allee was then seized and taken to Lucknow, where he is now confined.  The people here lament his absence as a great misfortune to the district, as he was the only one among them who ever had authority and influence, united with a fellow-feeling for the people, and a disposition to promote their welfare and happiness.*

[* Hushmut Allee is still in confinement, but under the troops at Sundeela, and not at Lucknow.  July 20, 1851.]

END OF VOL. 1.

A JOURNEY

THROUGH THE

KINGDOM OF OUDE

IN 1849—­1850;

BY DIRECTION OF THE RIGHT HON.  THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

WITH PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE ANNEXATION
OF OUDE TO BRITISH INDIA, &c.

BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR W. H. SLEEMAN, K.C.B.

Resident at the Court of Lucknow

IN TWO VOLUMES. 
VOL.  II.

LONDON: 
RICHARD BENTLEY
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1858.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER 1.

Sundeela—­The large landholders of the district—­Forces with the Amil—­Tallookdars, of the district—­Ground suited for cantonments and civil offices—­Places consecrated to worship—­Kutteea Huron—­Neem Sarang, traditions regarding—­Landholders and peasantry of Sundeela—­ Banger and Sandee Palee, strong against the Government authorities from their union—­Nankar and Seer.  Nature and character of—­ Jungle—­Leaves