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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER I
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I had in the evening a visit from Rajah Murdun Sing, of _Dharawun_, a stout and fat man, who bears a fair character.

He is of the Tilokchundee Bys clan, who cannot intermarry with each other, as they are all of the sama gote or family.

It would, according to their notions, be incestuous.
_January_ 19, 1850 .-- Hutteeah Hurrun, thirteen miles.

The plain level as usual, and of the loose doomuteea soil, fertile in natural powers everywhere, and well tilled around the villages, which are more numerous than in any other part that we have passed over.

The water is everywhere near the surface, and wells are made at little cost.


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