1 212 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 withdrew his troops, retiring by various routes through the
3 hills to Jummoo.
4 On his departure for his capital the Eajah ordered that the
5 drove of captive females should be sent thither after him.
6 During the march to that place, about seven hundred of them
7 died from want and fatigue, while many more were privately
8 carried off by the soldiery as their share of the booty. Thus
9 of the five thousand females that had been collected in the
10 sheepfold at Pelundheree, only about eight or nine hundred
11 reached Jummoo. From these some forty or fifty of the
12 youngest and best looking were selected for the Rajah's zenana,
13 in which some of them are still living. The rest, with the
14 exception of about a hundred who died from ill-treatment
15 at Jummoo, after being kept in the neighbourhood of that
16 city for some time, were sold to the highest bidders, and thus
17 many of them were consigned to hopeless slavery.
18 Thus was the Sudhun insurrection suppressed and revenged,
19 and such was its immediate but not its only result. Those
20 who had escaped the sword of the conqueror, and were left
21 at liberty in their hill-fastnesses, on returning to their homes
22 found that they had yet an enemy to encounter more
23 formidable than the Jummoo troops and their merciless leader.
24 The fields having remained uncultivated and unsown during
25 the occupation of the country by the enemy, Famine, with
26 all its horrors, raged throughout the land. The wretched peo-
27 ple were, therefore, again compelled to fly, and some thousands
28 of them sought the means of subsistence in the nearest low-
29 land districts, where, however, many of them perished of
30 hunger, perhaps after selling their children for a rupee or
31 two each to purchase food to preserve their lives and the lives
32 of their offspring.
33 Such was the fate of a people who dared to take up arms
34 in an attempt to free themselves from the power of Rajah
35 Goolaub Sing.