Rughbur Sing and his agents, Beharee Lal, Kurum Hoseyn, Maharaj Sing, Prag Sing, and others, selected several thousand of the finest cattle, and sent them to their homes; and the rest were left to the officers and soldiers of the force to be disposed of; and, for all this enormous number of animals, worth at least one hundred thousand rupees, the small sum of one hundred and thirty rupees was credited in the Nazim’s accounts to the Rajah’s estate.  At Busuntpoor the force was divided into two parties, for the purpose of torturing the surviving prisoners till they consented to sign bonds, for the payment of such sums as might be demanded from them.  Beharee Lal presided over the first party, in which they were tortured from day-break till noon.  They were tied up and flogged, had red-hot ramrods thrust into their flesh, their tongues were pulled out with hot pincers and pierced through; and, when all would not do, they were taken to Kurum Hoseyn, who presided at the other party, to be tortured again till the evening.  He sat with a savage delight, to witness this brutal scene and invent new kinds of torture.  No less than seventy men, besides women and children, perished at Busuntpoor from torture and starvation; and their bodies were left to rot in the mud, and their friends were afraid to approach them.  Bustee’s body was stolen at night by his son, and Guyadut’s was sold to his family by the soldiers.

Among the persons of respectability who died under the tortures, several are named below.* Buldee Sing, the husband of the Rajah’s sister, took poison and died; and Ramdeen, a Brahmin of great respectability, stabbed himself to death, to avoid further torture and dishonour.  For two months did these atrocities continue at Busuntpoor; and during that time the prisoners got no food from the servants of Government.  All that they got was sent to them by their friends, or by the charitable peasantry of the country around; and when sweetmeats were sent to them as food, which the most scrupulous could eat from any hand, the soldiers often snatched them from them and ate them themselves, or took them to their officers.  The women and children were all stripped of their clothes, and many died from cold and want of sustenance.  It was during the months of September and October that these atrocities were perpetrated.  The heavy rain had inundated the country, and the poor prisoners were obliged to lie naked and unsheltered on the damp ground.

[* 1.  Byjonauth, the Rajah’s accountant.
   2.  Gijraj Sing, Rajpoot.
   3.  Sheopersaud.
   4.  Rampersaud.
   5.  Jhow Lal.
   6.  Guyadut.
   7.  Duyram.
   8.  Budaree Chobee.
   9.  Mungul Sing, Rajpoot.
  10.  Seodeen Sing, ditto.
  11.  Akber Sing.
  12.  Bustee, a farmer.]