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BHOOGTEES.

sometimes friends, the Jekranees and Doomkees, were removed, after Sir Charles Napier's campaign, from the plains of Kutchee - the frontier of Sind, on which their territory was situated, became temptingly open to marauding expeditions.

Sir Charles Napier's campaign commenced in 1845, Meer Ali Morad, of Khyrpoor, being associated with him. The tribes of Kutchee were attacked, and unable to resist, took refuge again among the Bhoogtees, under the guidance and command of their celebrated leader Beejar Khan; Sir Charles Napier followed them with a heavy force; but the heat, and difficulty of maintaining his supplies, must have obliged him to defer the campaign to the next cold season, had not the Murrees, under a negotiation managed by Major Jacob, opportunely lent their aid. The Bhoogtees were driven from their own territory and took refuge with their northern neighbours the Ketranees, when, it being impossible to follow them, the British forces returned to Sind, and when all was quiet, the Bhoogtees returned to their own country.

They were no sooner settled than they recommenced their marauding forays, and, in concert with the other tribes, made the celebrated inroad into Sind which has been before noticed; but by the employment of the Sind cavalry on their frontier, in 1847, they were completely checked. On one occasion a marauding party was intercepted by Lieut. Merewether and a party of the Sind horse, and signally punished. One-half of the fighting men of the tribe were slain on the field, the rest escaped, many wounded, and all broken and disordered. The immediate consequence of this was that the Bhoogtee chiefs surrendered to the British authorities.

These chiefs, with their followers and families - men, women, and children - nearly 2,000 persons - were settled on lands near Larkhana. The prisoners were released, and many of the men took service in the police and frontier levies. So far all appeared favourable, till the intrigues of a native officer, Ali Khan, native adjutant of the Sind police, again disturbed them. Wearied by his threats and demands for money, the chiefs fled in 1848, and retired to their hills; but the wife of Islam Khan one of the chiefs, and about 700 of the tribe, remained. Those who had fled made attempts to renew their old inroads, but were everywhere checked; and, finally, the chiefs made a second submission, which, under the circumstances of the case, was accepted; and as the tribe was now broken and helpless, those who had remained in the plains, were in 1851 allowed to return to their hills. But some entered the British service: the Kulpur chief, Alim Khan, with thirty of his followers, were enrolled in the corps of Beloch mounted guides, and have done excellent service, while the tribe, in their hills, is orderly, industrious, and content. Their valley of Mutt is well cultivated, and produces excellent wheat and millet. There is good pasturage in the hills, and large flocks of sheep are produced and sold in Sind, and their wool, which is a