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2 condition. The village of Wudnee, Budnee, Woodnee, or
3 Boodnee (it is called by all these names), is east of the fort,
4 and is composed of about four hundred mud houses; the
5 shops are thirty-five in number, and the inhabitants about
6 two thousand, principally Sikhs, Brahmins, and Khetries.
7 Bhoga Purona, twelve miles from Busseean, belongs to
8 Nehal Singh, Aloowala; it is a small village of about 150
9 mud houses and about 700 inhabitants, Sikhs and Mahome-
10 dans, principally the former. There are five shops, but no
11 temple of any description ; and as a symptom of verging on
12 the desert, the three wells are about forty yards deep. The
13 cultivation around is various,—wheat, barley, bajra, sesame,
14 and mustard.
15 Moodkee, 16 miles from Bhoga Poorana, is a large village
16 belonging to the Lahore Raj; contains about 600 houses
17 (many of brick) and 4,000 inhabitants, Sikhs, Mahomedans,
18 and Hindoos. There are thirty shops in the village, and one
19 hundred Lahore sepoys are on duty at the place.
20 Sooltaan Khan Walla, 13 miles from Moodkee, consists of
21 about two hundred and fifty houses, of which but eight are
22 of brick; the shops are ten in number ; and the inhabitants
23 amount to about twelve hundred, of the three religions.
24 There is also a mosque of mud, and a small fortification of
25 the same material. In November, 1838, the village was in
26 great danger, if not partially burned, from the ignition of
27 several haystacks by some followers of a brigade of the army
28 of the Indus. Kool is about two miles distant, and when we
29 were there the other day the bheesties had to come here for
30 water. This place, Furreedkote, and fifty-eight other villages,
31 belong to Sirdar Pahar Singh, who derives from them a
32 revenue of rupees 48,000.— Viator, tz Delhi Gazelte.