The town of Datiyâ contains a population of between forty and fifty thousand souls. The streets are narrow, for, in buildings, as in dress, the Râjâ allows every man to consult his own inclinations. There are, however, a great many excellent houses in Datiyâ, and the appearance of the place is altogether very good. Many of his feudatory chiefs reside occasionally in the city, and have all their establishments with them, a practice which does not, I believe, prevail anywhere else among these Bundêlkhand chiefs, and this makes the capital much larger, handsomer, and more populous than that of Tehrî. This indicates more of mutual confidence between the chief and his vassals, and accords well with the character they bear in the surrounding countries. Some of the houses occupied by these barons are very pretty. They spend the revenue of their distant estates in adorning them, and embellishing the capital, which they certainly could not have ventured to do under the late Râjâs of Tehrî, and may not possibly be able to do under the future Rajas of Datiyâ. The present minister of Datiyâ, Ganêsh, is a very great knave, and encourages the residence upon his master's estate of all kinds of thieves and robbers, who bring back from distant districts every season vast quantities of booty, which they share with him. The chief himself is a mild old gentleman, who would not suffer violence to be offered to any of his nobles, though he would not, perhaps, quarrel with his minister for getting him a little addition to his revenue from without, by affording a sanctuary to such kind of people. As in Tehrî, so here, the pickpockets constitute the entire population of several villages, and carry their depredations northward to the banks of the Indus, and southward to Bombay and Madras.[10] But colonies of thieves and robbers like these abound no less in our own territories than in those of native states. There are more than a thousand families of them in the districts of Muzaffarnagar, Sahâranpur, and Meerut in the Upper Doâb,[11] all well enough known to the local authorities, who can do nothing with them.