In Oude, this has led to the stealing of young girls from our own districts.

Some men and women from our districts make a trade of it.

They pretend to be of Rajpoot caste, and inveigle away girls from their parents, to be united in marriage to Rajpoots in Oude.
They pretend to have brought them with the consent of their parents, of the same or higher caste, in our territories, and make large sums by the trade.
_December_ 31, 1849 .-- Eight miles to Sotee, over a country well studded with trees, and generally well cultivated.

The soil is, all the way, doomuteea.

The road, the greater part of the way, lies in the purgunnah of Nyn, held by Jugunnath Sing, a Kumpureea Rajpoot, and his nephew, and the collateral branches of their family.