There may be some exaggeration in the rate of the gratuities demanded; but that he has to pay them to the persons named I have no doubt whatever, because; all men in charge of districts have to pay them to those persons, whether they hold the districts in contract, or in trust.
The Zuffer Mobaruk regiment, with its commandant, Fidda Hoseyn, is now across the Ghagra in charge of Dhorehra, an estate in the forest belonging to Rajah Arjun Sing, who has absconded in consequence of having been ruined by the rapacity of a native collector last year; and they are diligently employed in plundering all the people who remain.

The estate paid 2,75,000 a-year till these outrages began; and it cannot now pay fifty thousand.

Arjun Sing and Seobuksh Sing, of Kuteysura, are the only refractory landholders in the Khyrabad district at present.
_March_ 10, 1850 .-- Halted at Lahurpoor.

There is good ground for large civil and military establishments to the south of the town, about a mile out, on the left of the road leading to Khyrabad.

It is a fine open plain of light soil.