1 178 APPENDIX.
2 THE LATE BATTLES.
3 Bussrenan belonged to the Jeened state, and when that lapsed ,
4 was in the portion retained by the British Government. It
5 is @ pretty extensive place, has 2,500 inhabitants residing in
6 about 500 houses of brick and mud; it has twenty shops, and
7 one temple of Siva.
8 Wudnee, sixteen miles from Busseean.—The Wudnee pur-
9 gunna was occupied some years back by the late Captain
10 Murray as a lapse to the British Government; but Runjeet
11 Singh, ever anxious to keep up his influence in the states
12 south of the Sutlege, put in his claim: eventually I believe
13 it was se!tled on the favourite son, Sheer Singh, and on his
14 accession to the guddee became a portion of the Lahore pos-
15 sessions. To retain it, a garrison of 200 men (it would be
16 almost a libel on the military profession to style them soldiers)
17 is kept in the fort of Wudnee. The body of the place is of
18 brick, and consists of a square of about a hundred yards with
19 a low decagon tower, or bastion, at each corner and midway
20 in each curtain: it is surrounded by a fausse brate of mud
21 and encircled by a deep ditch. The bastion in the east face
22 is prolonged and ends in a semicircle; through it is the en-
23 trance to the enceinte ; access to the fausse braie is from the
24 north, through a casemated circular bastion, and by a cause-
25 way across the ditch. On my riding towards the entrance,
26 the man sting sentry rose and closed the gate, and then
27 informed me of its being hookum naheen, for strangers to
28 visit the interior. What is contained within the wall I can-
29 not therefore state, beyond is a small white temple of Siva,
30 whose pinnacles are perceptible above the rampart. The
31 brickwork is in good order, but the fausse brave is in a bad