They instigate these officers to demand more than the lands can pay; offer the enhanced rate, and get the lands at once; or get a mortgage, run up the account, and foreclose by their aid.

They no sooner get the estate than they reduce the Government demand, by collusion or violence, to less than what the former proprietor had paid.
_March_ 9, 1850 .-- Lahurpoor, twelve miles, over a plain of doomuteea soil, well studded with groves and single trees, but not so fully cultivated the last half way as the first.

For the first halfway the road lies through the estate of Anrod Sing, of Oel; but for the last it runs through that of Seobuksh Sing, a Gour Rajpoot, who has a fort near the town of Kuteysura, five miles from Lahurpoor, and seven from Oel.

It is of mud, and has a ditch all round, and a bamboo-fence inside the outer walls.

It is of great extent, but not formidable against well-provided troops.