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No less than two thousand and five hundred bullocks from this estate were seized and sold, or starved to death.
A great many women were seized and tortured till they paid ransoms like the men; and many of them have never since been seen or heard of.
Some perished in confinement of hunger and cold, having been stripped of their clothes, and exposed at night to the open air on the damp ground, while others threw themselves into wells and destroyed themselves after their release, rather than return to their families after the exposure and dishonour they had suffered. In the Bahraetch district, the same atrocities were practised by Rughbur Sing and his agents.
Here also Goureeshunker was the chief agent employed, but the few people who remained were so terrified, that Captain Orr could get but little detailed information of particular cases.
The present Nazim had been one of Rughbur Sing's agents in all these atrocities, and the people apprehended that he was in office merely as his "locum tenens;" and that Rughbur Sing would soon purchase his restoration to power, as he boasted that he should.
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