[* The Bhur Goojurs must, I conclude, have been of the same race.]

The landholders, who have become leaders of gang-robbers, are more numerous here than in any other part of Oude that I have seen, save Bangur:  but they are not here, as there, so strongly federated.  The Amil is so weak, that, in despair, he connives at their atrocities and usurpations as the only means of collecting the Government revenue, and filling his own pockets.  The pausee bowmen are here much more formidable than they are even in Bangur.  There they thieve, and join the gangs of the refractory landholders; but here they have powerful leaders of their own tribe, and form formidable independent gangs.  They sometimes attack and plunder villages, and spare neither age nor sex.  They have some small strongholds in which they assemble from different villages over pitchers of spirits, made from the fruit of the mhowa tree, and purchased for them by their leaders; and, having determined upon what villages to attack, proceed at once to work before they get sober.  Every town and village through which we pass has suffered more or less from their atrocities, and the people are in a continual state of dread.

In 1843, the pausees, who resided in the village of Chindwara, in the Dewa district, ran off to avoid being held responsible for the robbery of a merchant in the neighbourhood.  They were pacified and brought back; but the landholder was sorely pressed by the Government collector to pay up his balance of revenue, and he, in turn, pressed the pausees to pay up the balances due by them for rents.  They ran off again, but their families were retained by the landholder.  The pausees gathered together all of their clan that they could muster from the surrounding villages, attacked the landholder’s house, killed his mother, wife, four of his nephews, the wife of one of his nephews, two of the King’s sipahees who attempted to defend them, and several of the landholder, Yakoob Husun’s, servants, and plundered him of everything he had.  The landlord himself happened to be absent on business, and was the only one of the family who escaped.  In all twenty-nine persons were murdered by the pausees on that occasion.  They were all permitted to come back and settle in the village, as if nothing had happened; the village was made over to another, and Yakoob Husun has ever since been supplicating in vain for redress at the King’s gate.

About three miles from Badoosura, we passed from the Ramnuggur district into that of Dureeabad Rodowlee; but the above description is applicable to both, though in a somewhat less degree to Ramnuggur than to Dureeabad.  It is equally applicable to the Dewa district, which we left on our right yesterday, midway between our road and Lucknow.  There Gunga Buksh Chowdheree and his relatives have large gangs engaged in plundering towns, and seizing upon the lands of their weaker and more scrupulous neighbours.  In the Dureeabad district, the leaders of gangs are chiefly of the Behraleea tribe of Rajpoots, so called after the district of Behralee, in which they reside.