1 200 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 and anticipations, the Rajah reaping the fruits of and delighted
3 with the display of his self-denying integrity in money mat-
4 ters, rewarded it in the manner most acceptable to Zoroveroo,
5 namely by the grant of additional powers and the further
6 extension of his confidence and trust.
7 It was, however, at the expense of the most fearful suf-
8 fering to the people around, that Zoroveroo courted his master's
9 favour. Goolaub was surprised as well as delighted to find
10 that where he formerly received a thousand rupees of revenue,
11 he now received fifteen hundred ; and he was not, it may be
12 supposed, very careful in his inquiries as to how the increase
13 was effected. He did not know, or knowing did not care,
14 that much of this increased revenue was raised by the exercise
15 of the most frightful cruelty on his unfortunate subjects.
16 Zoroveroo made no scruple to seize the children of those
17 who could not or did not pay up their contributions to the
18 revenue at the moment it became due or was demanded, or the
19 fines which he arbitrarily laid upon them. These children he
20 actually sent about the country in droves, like sheep or kine,
21 their unfortunate parents following them with cries and lamen-
22 tations. Even young infants were thus carried away for the
23 satisfaction of a cruel avarice • and married women were taken
24 when children were not to be had. When one of these herds
25 of wretched captives amounted to a large number, it was driven
26 down to the plains about Noorpoor, Denanuggur, and other
27 towns in the Punjaub, where the miserable slaves were sure
28 to find a ready sale. Inexorably cruel and pitiless was Wuzeer
29 Zoroveroo in pursuing* the interests of his master, and he has
30 been known to have captives cut to pieces for either attempt-
31 ing to escape, refusing to proceed, or even for fainting on
32 the road.
33 Thus did Zoroveroo extend his master's sway over the great-
34 est part of the hill-country north and north-east of Jummoo.
35 Thus too did he with the most heartless cruelty exercise his