1 38 JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN J. ABBOTT, 1847.
2 6th March 1847—Mullal_—Employed as above between Kooleet
3 and Minawur. The work begins to lag. ‘The people of Maharaja Goolab
4 Singh are becoming sulky and inattentive, and give me little aid, and the
5 Todah bundie mootsuddies seem to be influenced by them; for I cannot
6 persuade them to work. Yesterday issued a Roobakaree making over
7 the purgunnah of Minawur Khas tothe Lahore Government, the survey
8 having proceeded far enough to show that alterations in its limits will
9 not be necessary, and the Jumboo people having made free with some
10 of the green corn, although aware that the estate is not their own.
11 7th March.—I am still detained here by the same causes. Employed
12 as before in setting up boundary pillars, etc. I have not any hearty
13 assistance from Vuzeer Roop Chund. He and his people seem to hope
14 to gain their purpose by delaying the progress of the settlement. He
15 came to-day to remind me that I had acceeded to his request for a skirt
16 of plain country opposite Minawur. I replied that, if he would produce
17 any equivalent, he should have it.
18 Sth March—Mullal._—! cannot get free of this unhappy place. The
19 locusts are ravaging Minawur. I am still employed in reviewing daily
20 the boundary pillars set up the past day; taking razeenamahs ;
21 hearing proceedings of the Punchayats on village disputes; plotting
22 the daily surveys ; instructing candidates for the surveys, etc.
23 gth March—Marched to Punj Toote onthe lesser Toh river, a
24 tributary of the Chenab, surveying about 1:5 miles of boundary pillars
25 on the road. Employed as usual. The Kooleet territory ceases here
26 and Mungla commences: Minawur (Sikh) continues. The ancient
27 Jaghirdar of Mungla, a relation of Maharaja Goolab Singh, has been
28 dispossessed by that Prince, and is almost in rebellion. He came to me
29 for redress, but I referred him to Lahore. It is an ancient, petty prin-
30 cipality of about ten villages in the hills.
31 roth March—Punj Toote-——Employed as on the previous day.
32 Border Minawur and Mungla.
33 11th March.—Lesser Toh river, two miles north of Minawur. Ex-
34 amined the boundary pillars en route. Employed as above. Another
35 and more urgent letter from Maharaja Goolab Singh requesting me
36 to undo the Zodah bundie of Ruthana and Keerpind. I have replied