the owner could not, except upon particular occasions, dispose of one to be cut down, without the permission of the zumeendar upon whose lands it stood.  He might cut down one without his permission for building or repairing his house, or for fuel, on any occasion of marriage in his family, but not otherwise.  A good many fine trees were, he said, destroyed by the local officers of Government.  Having no tents, they collected the roofs of houses from a neighbouring village in hot or bad weather, cut away the branches to make rafters, and left the trunks as pillars to support the roofs, and under this treatment they soon died.  He told me that cow-dung was cheaper for fuel than wood in this district, and consequently more commonly used in cooking; but that they gathered cow-dung for fuel only during four months in the year, November, December, January, and February; all that fell during the other eight months was religiously left, or stored for manure.  In the pits in which they stored it, they often threw some of the inferior green crops of autumn, such as kodo and kotkee; but the manure most esteemed among them was pigs’ dung—­this, he said, was commonly stored and sold by those who kept pigs.  The best muteear and doomut soils, which prevail in this district, are rented at two rupees a kutcha beegah, without reference to the crop which the cultivator might take from them; and they yielded, under good tillage, from ten to fifteen returns of the seed in wheat, barley, gram, &c.  There are two and half or three kutcha beegahs in a pucka beegah; and a pucka beegah is from 2750 to 2760 square yards.

Sutrick is celebrated for the shrine of Shouk Salar, alias Borda Baba, the father of Syud Salar, whose shrine is at Bahraetch.  This person, it is said, was the husband of the sister of Mahmood, of Ghuznee.  He is supposed to have died a natural death at this place, while leading the armies of his sovereign against the Hindoos.  His son had royal blood in his veins, and his shrine is held to be the most sacred of the two.  A large fair is held here in March, on the same days that this fair takes place at Bahraetch.  All our Hindoo camp followers paid as much reverence to the shrine as they passed as the Mahommedans.  It is a place without trade or manufactures; but a good many respectable Mahommedan families reside in it, and have built several small but neat mosques of burnt bricks.  There is little thoroughfare in the wretched road that passes through it.

The Hindoos worship any sign of manifested might or power, though exerted against themselves, as they consider all might and power to be conferred by the Deity for some useful purpose, however much that purpose may be concealed from us.  “These invaders, however merciless and destructive to the Hindoo race, say they must have been sent on their mission by God for some great and useful purpose, or they could not possibly have succeeded as they did:  had their proceedings not been sanctioned by Him, he could at