In the Churda estate, in the Tarae forest, the same sufferings were inflicted on the people by the same agents, Goureeshunker and Beharee Lal.  They seized Mudar Buksh, the manager, and made him over to Moonshee Kurum Hoseyn, who had him beaten to death.  The estate of the Rajah of Bhinga was treated in the same way.  Beharee Lal attacked the town with a large force, plundered all the houses in it, and all the people of their clothes and ornaments.  They seized all the plough-bullocks and other cattle, and had them driven off and sold.  The women were all seized and driven off in crowds to the camp of Rughbur Sing at Parbatee-tolah.  Many of them who were far gone in pregnancy perished on the road, from fatigue and harsh treatment The estate of the Rajah of Ruhooa was treated in the same manner; and the Rajah, to avoid torture and disgrace, fled with his family to the jungles.  In July 1846, being in great distress, he was induced to come back on the most solemn assurances from Rughbur Sing of personal security for himself, family, and attendants.  He left the Rajah his nankar lands for his subsistence, pledging himself to exact no rents or revenues from them; but put the estate under the management of his own agents, Lala Omed Rae and others.  He at the same time pledged himself not to exact from any of the poor Rajah’s tenants higher rates than those stipulated for in the engagements then made.  But he immediately after saddled the Rajah with the payment of five hundred armed men, on the pretence that they were necessary to protect him, and aid him in the management of these nankar lands.  In May 1847, when the harvests had been gathered, and he had exacted from the tenants and cultivators the rates stipulated, Goureeshunker was put into the management.  He seized all the tenants and cultivators by a sudden and simultaneous attack upon their several villages, and extorted from them a payment of fifty thousand rupees more.  Not satisfied with this, Goureeshunker seized the Rajah’s chief manager, Mungul Pershad, tied him up to a tree, and had him beaten to death.  Many of the Rajah’s tenants and servants were beaten to death in the same manner; and no less than forty villages were attacked and plundered.  A good many respectable females were seized and compelled to make up the ransoms of their husbands and fathers who were under torture.  Many of the females who had been seized perished from the cruel treatment and from want of food.  Two thousand head of cattle, chiefly plough-bullocks, were seized and sold from this estate.

I have passed through all the districts here named, save two, Churda and Bhinga, and I can say, that everything I saw and heard tended to confirm the truth of what has here been told.  Rughbur Sing and the agents employed by him were, by all I saw, considered more as terrible demons who delighted in blood and murder than as men endowed with any feelings of sympathy for their fellow-creatures; and the government, which employed such men in the management of districts with uncontrolled power, seemed to be utterly detested and abhorred.