Detachments of from one hundred to two hundred were sent out as before, to plunder the country, and seize all from whom anything could be extorted.

All the towns and villages on the estate were plundered of everything that could be found, and fifteen hundred men, and about five hundred women and children, were brought in prisoners, with no less than eighty thousand animals of all kinds.

There were twenty-five thousand head of cattle; and horses, mares, sheep, goats, ponies, &c., made up the rest.

All with the men, women, and children were driven off, pell- mell, a distance of twenty miles to Busuntpoor, in the Hurhurpoor district, where Beharee Lal's headquarter had been fixed.

For three days heavy rain continued to fall.