1 A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE JUMMOO FAMILY. 233
2 to resist, sought to avenge themselves and their wrongs by
3 nightly thefts and attacks, in which they carried off the
4 Wives and children of their enemies, whom they usually
5 sold afterwards in the Punjaub, &c. But the wild herdsmen
6 always with fury, bloodshed and desolation, revenged these
7 barbarities. Such was the state of the hills when these two
8 brothers came among the Meghs, and chose the place near
9 Bhow for their future residence. This poor and hitherto un-
10 protected race were soon brought to consider the Rajpoot set-
11 tlement among them in the light of a blessing, and as a token of
12 the favour of Heaven ; and they willingly acknowledged their
13 claim to the title of lords and masters. The Rajpoot com-
14 munity, including the families of both brothers, numbered only
15 about twenty persons ; but still their very name seems to
16 have become a terror to the Ghaddees, who were brought
17 by the superior prowess and policy of the Rajpoots to enter
18 into certain agreements and conditions, and to respect the
19 rights of the now protected Meghs. Thus in course of time
20 all animosity between these tribes was partly lost and for-
21 gotten, until the Rajpoot race grew so strong and numerous
22 that at last even the very Ghaddees were obliged for their own
23 security to acknowledge the superiority and power of the new
24 colony, whom they in a few years were constrained to look on
25 in the light of their temporary masters. However about the
26 year of the Hejira 602, or nine years after their arrival,
27 these two brothers are said, for some unknown reason, but most
28 likely for their mutual interest, aggrandizement, and power, to
29 have separated. The elder, Kirpal Dehu, remained at or near
30 the present site of Bhow, where he had erected some huts
31 with thatched roofs ; while his younger brother erected a small
32 habitation of the same kind on the opposite hill to the west,
33 and just on the opposite bank of the small stream, called the
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