------------------------------------+------------+--------+------- | Number | Number | Name of Chokey | of | of | Total | Constables | Peons | ------------------------------------+------------+--------+------- Washerman’s Tank (Dhobi Talao) | 2 | 12 | 14 Back Bay | 2 | 10 | 12 Palo (Apollo _i.e._ Girgaum Road) | 2 | 6 | 8 Girgen (Girgaum) | 2 | 12 | 14 Gowdevy (Gamdevi) | 2 | 8 | 10 Pillajee Ramjee[29] | 2 | 8 | 10 Moomladevy (Mumbadevi) | 2 | 10 | 12 Calvadevy (Kalbadevi) | 2 | 8 | 10 Sheik Maymon’s Market | | | (Sheik Memon Street?) | 2 | 10 | 12 Butchers (Market?) | 2 | 10 | 12 Cadjees (Kazi’s market or post) | 2 | 8 | 10 Ebram Cowns (Ibrahim Khan’s | | | market or post) | 2 | 8 | 10 Sat Tar (Sattad Street) | 2 | 12 | 14 Portuguese Church (Cavel) | 2 | 8 | 10 ------------------------------------+------------+--------+------- | 28 | 130 | 158 ------------------------------------+------------+--------+------- The names of the police-stations or _chaukis_ (chokeys) show that the area thus policed included roughly the modern Dhobi Talao section and the southern part of Girgaum, most of the present Market and Bhuleshwar sections and the western parts of the modern Dongri and Mandvi sections. In fact, the expression “Dongri and the Woods” represented the area which formed the nucleus of what were known in the middle of the nineteenth century as the “Old Town” and “New Town”. At the date of Mr. Halliday’s appointment, this part of the Island was almost entirely covered with oarts (_hortas_) and plantations, intersected by a few narrow roads; and if one may judge by the illustration “A Night in Dongri” in _The Adventures of Qui-hi_ (1816),[30] a portion of this area was inhabited largely by disreputable persons.