They commonly bury the infants alive as soon as possible after their birth.

We, sir, are helpless, living as we do among such turbulent and pitiless landholders, and cannot presume to admonish or remonstrate: our lives would not be safe for a moment were we to say anything, or seem to notice such crimes." I do not think that any landholder of this class, in the Bangur district, would feel much compunction for the commission of any crime that did not involve their expulsion from caste, or degradation in rank.

Great crimes do not involve these penalties: they incur them only by small peccadillos, or offences deemed venal among other societies.

The Government of Oude, as it is at present constituted, will never be able to put down effectually the great crimes which now stain almost every acre of land in its dominions.

It is painful to pass over a country abounding so much in what the evil propensities of our nature incite men to do, when not duly restrained; and so little in what the good prompt us to perform and create, when duly protected and encouraged, under good government.
_January_ 24, 1850 .-- Sandee, fourteen miles, over a plain of light domuteea soil, which becomes very sandy for the last four or five miles.