Hardly any of them attain a good old age, nor can they boast of an untainted line of ancestors like other men.

If they get sons, they commonly die young.

They unite themselves to women of inferior castes for want of daughters in families of their own ranks, and there is hardly a family among these proud Rajpoots unstained by such connections.* Even the reptile _Pausies_ become _Rajpoots_ by giving their daughters to Powars and other Rajpoot families, when by robbery and murder they have acquired wealth and landed property.

The sister of Gunga Buksh, of Kasimgunge, was married to the Rajah of Etondeea, a Powar Rajpoot in Mahona; and the present Rajah--Jode Sing--is her son.

Gunga Buksh is a Pausee, but the family call themselves Rawats, and are considered to be Rajpoots, since they have acquired landed possessions by the murder and ruin of the old proprietors.