A great number of pausees reside in and around the town, and he knew that he could collect a gang of them for any enterprise of this sort at the shortest notice.  The people were not disposed to pay the value of his lost bullocks, and they could not be found.  While he was meditating his revenge, his relation, Dhokul Partuk, was by a trifling accident driven to take the field as a robber.  An oil-vender, a female, from a neighbouring village, had presumed to come to Peernuggur, and offer oil for sale.  The oil-venders of the town, dreading the consequences of such competition, went forthwith to the little garrison and prayed for protection.  One of the sipahees went off to the silversmith to whom the oil-vender had sold twopence-worth of oil, and, finding the oil-vender still with him, proceeded at once to seize both, and take them off to the garrison as criminals.  Dhokul Partuk, who lived close by, and had his sword by his side, went up and remonstrated with the sipahee, who, taking him to be another silversmith, struck him across the face with his stick.  Dhokul drew his sword, and made a cut at the sipahee, which would have severed his head from his body had he not fallen backwards.  As it was, he got a severe cut in the chest, and ran off to his companions.  Dhokul went out of the town with his drawn sword, and no one dared to pursue him.  At night he returned, took off his family to a distant village, became a leader of a band of pausee bowmen, and invited his kinsman, Dal Partuk, to follow his example.

Together, they made an attack at night upon the town, and burnt down one quarter of the houses.  Dal Partuk offered to come to terms and live in the town again, if the people would pay the value of his lost bullocks, and give him a small income of five rupees a-month.  This they refused to do, and the plunder and burning went on.  At last they made this attack upon the party in the surae, which happened to be so full that several of the sipahees and others were cooking outside the walls.  None of the travellers had arms to defend themselves, and those inside closed the doors as soon as they heard the alarm.  The pausees, with their bows and arrows, killed two of the sipahees who were outside, and while the gang was trying to force open the doors of the surae, the people of the town, headed by a party of eight pausee bowmen of their own, attacked and drove them back.  These bowmen followed the gang for some distance, and killed several of them with their arrows.  The sipahees who escaped proceeded in all haste to the Resident, and the Frontier Police has since succeeded in arresting several of the gang; but the two leaders have hitherto been screened by Goorbuksh Sing and other great landholders in their interest.  The eight pausees who exerted themselves so successfully in defence of the town and surae were expecting an attack from the pausees of a neighbouring village, and ready for action when the alarm was given.