in ear, with as much unconcern as if they had been upon a fine sward to which they could do no harm.  I saw one of my people in advance make a sign to them, on which they made for the road as fast as they could.  I asked the Nazim how he could permit such trespass.  He told me, “That he did not see them, and unless his eye was always upon them he could not prevent their doing mischief, for they were the King’s servants, who never seemed happy unless they were trespassing upon some of his Majesty’s subjects.”  Nothing, certainly, seems to delight them so much as the trespasses of all kinds which they do commit upon them.

March 8, 1850.—­Oel, five miles, over a plain of the same fine muteear soil, beautifully cultivated and studded with trees, intermixed with numerous clusters of the graceful bamboo.  A great-grandson of the monster Nadir Shah, of Persia, Ruza Kolee Khan, who commands a battalion in the King of Oude’s service, rode by me, and I asked him whether he ever saw such a cultivated country in Persia.  “Never,” said he:  “Persia is a hilly country, and there is no tillage like this in any part of it.  I left Persia, with my father, twenty-two years ago, when I was twenty-two years of age, and I have still a very distinct recollection of what it was then.  There is no country in the world, sir,” said the Nazim, “like Hindoostan, when it enjoys the blessings of a good government.  The purgunnah of Kheree, in which we now are, is all held by the heads of three families of Janwar Rajpoots:  Rajah Ajub Sing, of Kymara; Anrod Sing, of Oel; and Umrao Sing, of Mahewa.  There are only sixty-six villages of Khalsa, or Crown lands left, yielding twenty-one thousand rupees a-year.  The rest have been all absorbed by the heads of these Rajpoot families.

Villages.            Jumma. 
Kymara   .   .   .     82   .   .    13,486  0  0
Oel  .   .   .   .    170   .   .    54,790  0  0
Mahewa   .   .   .     70   .   .    20,835  0  0
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322   .   .    89,111  0  0
Khalsa   .   .   .     66   .   .    21,881  0  0
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388   .   .  1,10,992  0  0
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“These heads of families have each a fort, surrounded by a strong fence of bamboos, and mounted with good guns; and the King cannot get so large a revenue from them as he did thirty years ago, in the time of Hakeem Mehndee, though their lands are as well tilled now as they were then, and yield more rent to their holders.  They spend it all in keeping up large armed bands to resist the Government; but they certainly take care of their cultivators and tenants of all kinds, and no man dares molest them.