brother, Bhujun Sing, lived united with him, and took what he chose to give him for his own subsistence and that of his family.  Davey Sing died without issue, leaving the whole estate to his brother, Bhujun Sing, who had two sons, Dul Sing and Maun Sing, among whom he divided the estate.* Dul Sing had six sons, but Maun Sing had none.  He, however, adopted Bhowanee Sing, to whom he left his portion of the estate.  Dul Sing’s share became subdivided among his six sons; but Khunjun Sing, the son of his eldest son, when he became head of the family, got together a large force, with some guns, and made use of it in the usual way by seizing upon the lands of his weaker neighbours.  He attacked his nephew, Bhowanee Sing, and took all his lands; and got, on one pretence or another, the greater part of those of his other relatives.

[* Mitholee contains the sites of one thousand four hundred and eighty-six villages, only one-third of which are now occupied.]

He died without issue, leaving his possessions and military force to Lonee Sing, his brother, who continued to pursue the same course.  In 1847 he, with one thousand armed men and five guns, attacked his cousin, Monnoo Sing, of Mohlee, the head of the family of the fourth son of Dul Sing, killed four and wounded two persons; and, in collusion with the local governor, seized upon all his estate.  Redress was sought for in vain; and as I was passing near, Monnoo Sing and his brother Chotee Sing came to me at Mahomdee to complain.  Monnoo Sing remained behind sick at Mahomdee; but Chotee Sing followed me on.  He rode on horseback behind my elephant, and I made him give me the history of his family as I went along, and told him to prepare for me a genealogical table, and an account of the mode in which Lonee Sing had usurped the different estates of the other members of the family.  This he gave to me on the road between Poknapoor and Gokurnath by one of his belted attendants, who, after handing it up to me on the elephant, ran along under the nose of Rajah Bukhtawur Sing’s fine chestnut horse without saying a word.

I asked the Rajah whether he knew Lonee Sing?  “Yes,” said he; “everybody knows him:  he is one of the ablest, best, and most substantial men in Oude; and he keeps his estate in excellent order, and is respected by all people.”—­“Except his own relations,” said the belted attendant; “these he robs of all they have, and nobody interposes to protect them, because he has become wealthy, and they have become poor!” “My good fellow,” said the Rajah, “he has only taken what they knew not how to hold, and with the sanction of the King’s servants.”—­“Yes,” replied the man, “he has got the sanction of the King’s servants, no doubt, and any one who can pay for it may get that now-a-days to rob others of the King’s subjects.  Has not Lonee Sing robbed all his cousins of their estates, and added them to his own, and thereby got the means of bribing the King’s servants to let him do what he likes?”