1 HISTORY
2 OP
3 RUNJEET SING'S FAMILY.
4 About the year of Christ 1470, lived a Hindoo Jat of the
5 Varaich caste, named Kauloo. His family had for three
6 generations dwelt at the village of Pundee Buttee, otherwise
7 called Butt, forty or fifty miles south-west of Lahore; whence
8 Kauloo, who was born and continued to reside there for some time,
9 was generally styled Kauloo Buttee. The people of his native
10 village were notorious for their wild and predatory habits ; but
11 Kauloo is said to have been a peaceable man, working hard for
12 an honest livelihood. Having, while yet at an early age, had
13 some quarrel with his friends at Buttee, he took with him his
14 wife, and wandering away from the village and the low country,
15 after some time settled at the small village of Sanseree, near
16 Rajah Sansee, the present patrimonial jaghire of the Scinda-
17 walla family, and lying about four or five coss west of Um-
18 ritsir. This place was the resort of hordes of Sansees, a
19 wandering race of low caste, noted for their addiction to plunder,
20 and moving about in parties of from one hundred to a thousand,
21 dwelling in tents or huts made of reeds. Here however the
22 self-exiled Kauloo dwelt safely, though surrounded by these
23 Sansee bands. It happened on a time, that his wife, then far
24 advanced in pregnancy, had occasion to go to some distance
25 from home, and on her return, being suddenly seized with the
26 pains of labour, was forced to take refuge in a Sansee tent.
27 Here she gave birth to a son, and being kindly and hospitably
28 treated bv the Sansees, did not return to her home in the village