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

CHAPTER I
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It passes near the town of Shajehanpoor; and the village of Palee, twenty miles north-west from Sandee, where we shall have to recross it.
_January_ 26, 1850 .-- Busora, twelve miles north-west from Sandee, over a plain of light sandy soil, or bhoor, with some intervals of oosur.

The tillage extends over as much of the surface as it ought in so light a soil; and the district of Sandee Palee generally is said to be well cultivated.

It has been under the charge of Hafiz Abdoollah, a very honest and worthy man, for seven years up to his death, which took place in November last.

He is said never to have broken faith with a landholder; but he was too weak in means to keep the bad portion under control; and too much occupied in reading or repeating the _Koran_, which he knew all by heart, as his name imports.

His son Ameer Gholam Allee, a lad of only thirteen years of age, has been appointed his successor.


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