1 APPENDIX.
2 C Vlll
3 kum Chund Dewan to enforce over a large tract of the lower
4 the collection of tribute, and to ranges. They are equally
5 complete arrangements in the strong and powerful. Their
6 Hills, where the Raj as of Bhim- famous strongholds and large
7 bhur and Rajcoree and the villages of JDeva and Vettala
8 tribe of Chibh Bhao were re- are well known, as capable of
9 fractory." — C. 5, page 82. producing at least 10 or 12,000
10 well armed and hardy mountaineers.
11 Note.
12 u Ram Lol returned for his Ram Lol never took the Pa-
13 brother's sake and ultimately hul or became a Sikh — or was
14 received the Pahul or Sikh his name ever changed to Ram
15 initiation and changed his Singh,
16 name to Ram Singh." — C. 7, page 114.
17 Note.
18 " This individual was origi-
19 nally a petty officer of horse
20 in the service of Ameer Khan."
21 — C. § , page 145.
22 " He (Runjeet Singh) holds
23 besides Kashmeer and the en-
24 tire hill country to the snowy
25 range and even Ludak beyond
26 the Heemelaya. For though
27 many of the Rajahs of this
28 tract still remain in their pos-
29 sessions, they have been re-
30 duced to the character of sub-
31 jects, paying tribute equal to
32 their utmost means and con-
33 tributing men to the armies of
34 Lahore whenever called upon."
35 —C. II, page l%&.
36 The Seyd was originally at
37 Peshawer in the service of Sir-
38 dar Pheer Mamood Khan as a
39 foot soldier on a monthly salary
40 of 4 or 5 rupees.
41 Note,
42 Ludak, Iskurdoo, &c. were
43 invaded and subjugated by
44 Goolab Singh and the Dogra Fa-
45 mily, without previous instruc-
46 tion or the knowledge of Run-
47 jeet, and when he was inform-
48 ed by them of any thing of the
49 kind, it was in a tenor and man-
50 ner merely to serve their own
51 ends. Nor did ever any part of
52 the revenue of those states en-
53 ter the Lahore Treasury. The
54 country being represented to
55 him as an unproductive wild
56 and desert Tract.