dead bodies in the course of the day, on their return to cantonments from detached command, or we should have known nothing about it. It is true, we heard the firing, but that we heard every day; and I have seen from my bungalow half a dozen villages in flames, at the same time, from this species of contest between the Râjpût landholders and the government authorities. Our cantonments were generally full of the women and children who had been burnt out of house and home. In Oudh such contests generally begin with the harvests. During the season of tillage all is quiet; but, when the crops begin to ripen, the governor begins to rise in his demands for revenue, and the Râjpût landholders and cultivators to sharpen their swords and burnish their spears. One hundred of them always consider themselves a match for one thousand of the king's troops in a fair field, because they have all one heart and soul, while the king's troops have many.[8] While the Pawârs were ravaging the Jhânsî state with their bhûmiâwat, a merchant of Sâgar had a large convoy of valuable cloths, to the amount, I think, of forty thousand rupees,[9] intercepted by them on its way from Mirzâpur[10] to Râjputâna. I was then at Sâgar, and wrote off to the insurgents to say that they had mistaken one of our subjects for one of the Jhânsî chiefs, and must release the convoy. They did so, and not a piece of the cloth was lost. This bhûmiâwat is supposed to have cost the Jhânsî chief above twenty lâkhs of rupees,[11] and his subjects double that sum. Gopâl Singh, a Bundêla, who had been in the service of the chief of Pannâ,[12] took to bhûmiâwat in 1809, and kept a large British force employed in pursuit through Bundêlkhand and the Sâgar territories for three years, till he was invited back by our Government in the year 1812, by the gift of a fine estate on the banks of the Dasân river, yielding twenty thousand rupees[13] a year, which his son now enjoys, and which is to descend to his posterity, many of whom will, no doubt, animated by their fortunate ancestor's example, take to the same trade. He had been a man of no note till he took to this trade, but by his predatory exploits he soon became celebrated throughout India; and, when I came to the country, no other man's chivalry was so much talked of. A Bundêla, or other landholder of the Hindoo military class, does not think himself, nor is he indeed thought by others, in the slightest degree less respectable for having waged this indiscriminate war upon the innocent and unoffending, provided he has any cause of dissatisfaction with his liege lord; that is, provided he cannot get his land or his appointment in his service upon his own terms, because all others of the same class and clan feel more or less interested in his success.