1 192 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 on the spot where he fell, although watched and attended
3 by a party of Akalees, has become a place of pilgrimage for
4 Hindoos and Mahometans alike. It stands at Naoshera, on
5 the Yuzoofzie side of the Loonda or Cabul river.
6 Since the days of Phoola Sing, the Akalees have greatly
7 degenerated, and are to be found intermixed with men of low
8 castes, as Mujbees, &c, a practice, which their distinguished
9 chief never countenanced or permitted. A true Akalee of
10 the original Jat stock is now rarely to be met with, except at
11 the different Akal Bhoongahs, as at Umritsir and else-
12 where. The real Akalee was bold, free, and assuming to
13 all, but in particular haughty and audacious to those who
14 dared to call or think themselves his superiors in rank or
15 station. He ever strove to win the character of a friend
16 to the poor, and an enemy of the rich and powerful. He
17 was a fanatic in his religion, which was nearly a
18 pure deism, and followed strictly all the rules laid down for
19 his guidance by the great Gooroo Govind Sing. He made
20 no scruple to seize or demand from even a friend whatever
21 he required ; but he was equally ready to overpay an obligation.
22 He cared little for wealth, but was content with the mere ne-
23 cessaries of existence. He was regardless of life and willingly
24 exposed his own to danger at the call of duty. Such was
25 the true Akalee of the stock which produced a Phoola Sing ;
26 but the race is now nearly extinct. Before the war with
27 the British, they had much fallen away, and since that cam-
28 paign, in which they suffered severely, little has been heard
29 of them.